Wolff's embryo logical as well as his teratological 

 investigations did not remain without effect on the Russian 

 sciences at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the 

 nineteenth century. The academician V. F. Zuiew described the 

 shark embryo from the collection of the Academy of Science. ^ 

 The Petersburg physician H. Knakshtedt (37) issued a separate 

 report describing a monster without brain or skull. 12 j n this 

 small memorandum containing Russian and German texts, its 

 authors "did not get into the investigation of the specific 

 explanations ... of monsters." It gives an honest anatomical 

 description of onencephalia which he had encountered in his 

 practice. 



(Footnote No. 10, contd) 



and physiology from the works of different physicians. 

 They are collected in Russian, Latin and French, and 

 are clearly and briefly stated with short description. 

 For the benefit of Russian youth, it was first printed 

 by the efforts and independence of Nestor Maksimovich- 

 Ambodik, Doctor of Medicine and professor of the medical 

 arts. In the typography of the Naval Gentry of the 

 military school. In the city of St. Peter, 1783. 

 xviii + 160 + 136 pp. (36) 



11. V. F. Zuiew, "Foetus squali singularis . Dorso mutico, 

 dentibus acutis ; cum pinna ani . Linnaei Syst . Nat . 

 Descriptus" a Bas. Zuiew, NOVA ACTA ACAD. SC . IMP. 

 PETR0P0L., V, 1789, pp. 239 - 242. 



12. "Anatomical Description of Monsters Born Alive without 

 Brain or Cephalic Skull, in the form of an invitation 

 letter reported by Kristofer Elias Knakshtedt, Doctor of 

 Medicine and Surgery and well known Professor of Sciences 

 of the bones and their diseases in the Medico- Surgical 

 Institute, and translated into the Russian language by 

 Karl Meisner, who is a student of this institute." With 

 accompanying figures. In the city of St. Peter, 1791, 



23 pp. 



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