The Phlogiston theory in chemistry The beginnings of modern chemistry Joseph Black Henry Cavendish Joseph Priestley Karl Wilhelm Scheele Lavoisier: modern chemistry Chemistry since the time of Dalton Dalton and the atomic theory H. Davy and electro-chemistry Organic chemistry, molecules Chemical affinity Periodicity of atomic weights Spectroscope and camera Anatomy and physiology in the eighteenth century Albrecht von Haller 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 in the nineteenth century Cuvier: the correlation of parts 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 medicine The 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 of experimental psychology Brain and mind 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 of oriental archaeology The riddle of the sphinx Treasures from Niniveh How the records were read |