Facets

1575

#4964

Examen de ingenios para las ciencias.

Huarte was a distinguished Spanish physician and psychologist. His Examen, which gained for him a European reputation, was the first attempt to show the connection between psychology and physiology. English translatio…

1863

#1362

Physiologische Studien über die Hemmungsmechanischen für die Reflexthätigkeit des Rückenmarks im Gehirn des Frosches.

Sechenov discovered the cerebral inhibition of spinal reflexes. He was Professor of Physiology at St. Petersburg and Moscow, and the “father of Russian physiology”.

1890

#636

Les lois de la fatigue étudiées dans les muscles de l’homme.

Mosso invented the ergograph from the study of voluntary contraction. The description of the instrument is on pages 124-41 of the above article.

1897

#12198

Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1954

#8928

História da fIsiologia em Portugal.

1964

#8145

Essays on the history of physiology in Russia, by Kh.S. Koshtoyants. Editor of English translation: Donald B. Lindsley. Translated from the Russian by David Boder, Kristan Hanes [and] Natalie O'Brien.

Focuses on neurophysiology, especially the work of Sechenov and Pavlov. Originally published in Moscow, 1946.

1971

#534.4

Les sciences de la vie dans la pensée française du XVIIIe siècle. Genération des animaux de Descartes à l’Encyclopédie. 2e ed.

Translated into English by Robert Ellrich as The life sciences in eighteenth-century French thought, edited by Keith R. Benson, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

1973

#1588.13

The heart and the vascular system in ancient Greek medicine from Alcmaeon to Galen.

1984

#1588.20

Science and medicine in France. The emergence of experimental physiology, 1790-1855.

1994

#9890

The physical and the moral: Anthropology, physiology, and philosophical medicine in France, 1750-1850.

2009

#10189

The imperial laboratory: Experimental physiology and clinical medicine in Post-Crimean Russia.

2017

#10754

Infertility in early modern England.

2017

#12626

A cultural history of medical vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier.

"One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is in such attitudes that we trace the origins of modern science and…