| The Phlogiston theory in chemistry
 The beginnings Joseph Blackof modern chemistry
 Henry Cavendish
 Joseph Priestley
 Karl Wilhelm Scheele
 Lavoisier: modern chemistry
 Chemistry Dalton and the atomic theorysince the time of Dalton
 H. Davy and electro-chemistry
 Organic chemistry, molecules
 Chemical affinity
 Periodicity of atomic weights
 Spectroscope and camera
 Anatomy and physiology Albrecht von Hallerin the eighteenth century
 Morgagni and morbid anatomy
 William Hunter
 John Hunter
 Lazzaro Spallanzani
 Chemical theory of digestion
 The function of respiration
 | E. Darwin: vegetable physiology Zoology (end of XVIIIth c.)
 Anatomy and physiology Cuvier: the correlation of partsin the nineteenth century
 Bichat and the bodily tissues
 Lister and the microscope
 R. Brown and the cell nucleus
 Schleiden, Schwann: cell theory
 The cell theory elaborated
 Animal chemistry
 Blood, muscles, and glands
 
 Theories of organic evolution Goethe: metamorphosis of parts
 Erasmus Darwin
 Lamarck versus Cuvier
 Tentative advances
 Darwin and the origin of species
 New champions
 The origin of the fittest
 Eighteenth-century medicineThe system of Boerhaave Animists, vitalists, organicists
 The system of Hahnemann
 Jenner and vaccination
 | Nineteenth-century medicine Physical diagnosis Parasitic diseases
 Painless surgery
 Pasteur and the germ theory
 Experiments with grape sugar
 Organisms and the wort of beer
 Lister and antiseptic surgery
 Preventive inoculation
 Serum-therapy
 The new science Brain and mindof experimental psychology
 Functions of the nerves
 Psycho-physics
 Fechner expounds Weber's law
 Physiological psychology
 The brain as the organ of mind
 The structure of the brain
   
 The new science The riddle of the sphinxof oriental archaeology
 Treasures from Niniveh
 How the records were read
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