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© Dr Mark Hill (2008)

Acknowledgements

Introduction

This is an Index page to the extracts from the 4 volume set of A HISTORY OF SCIENCE by Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D. assisted by Edward H. Williams, M.D. A set of texts published early in the 20th century. I recommend reading the 4 volumes as they are an interesting read and written with a different "feel" in language to those texts written today where brevity is carried to such lengths as to make most writings either bland or uninteresting.

Use the links listed below or in the lefthand menu to work through in sequence or jump to a specific extract.

Page Links: Introduction | Arabian Medicine | Mediaeval | The Great Anatomists | Harvey | Leeuwenhoek | 16-17C Medicine | Philosopher-Scientists | 18C Anatomy and Physiology | 19C Anatomy | Evolution | Brain and Mind | Brain Structure | Glossary

Index

• Arabian Medicine
  • Arabian physicians
    • Harets ben Kaladah
    • Honain ben Isaac (809-873 A.D.)
    • Rhazes (850-923 A.D.)
    • Haly Abbas (died about 994)
    • Albucasis (died in 1013 A.D.)
    • Avicenna (980-1037)
    • Avenzoar (1113-1196)
    • Averrhoes (died in 1198 A.D.)
  • Arabian Hospitals
    • Lady Seidel Bagdad hospital (918 A.D)
    • Emir Adad-adaula hospital (977 A.D)
    • Emir Nureddin Damascus hospital (1160 A.D)
    • Mansuri hospital at Cairo (1283 A.D)
    • Christian medical school at Salerno (1000 A.D.) (Christian not Arab)
• Mediaeval Science
  • Byzantine
    • Aetius of Amida (about 502-575 A.D.)
    • Paul of Aegina (about 620-690)
  • 13C Medicine Galen
    • Arnald of Villanova (1235-1312)
    • Peter of Abano (1250-1315)
    • Hugo of Lucca (died 1252 or 1268)
    • Mondino (1276-1326)
    • Guy of Chauliac (born 1300)
    • Emperor Frederick H. (1194-1250 A.D.)
  • 15C Medicine
    • Cornelius Celsus, the De Medicine
    • John of Vigo, the Practica Copiosa (published 1514)
• The Great Anatomists
  • Columbus (1490-1559)
  • Charles Etienne (1503-1564)
  • Andrew Vesalius (1514-1564)
  • Eustachius (died 1574)
  • Fallopius (1523-1562)
  • Fabricius (1537-1619)
  • Michael Servetus (1511-1553)
• The coming of Harvey
• Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria
• Medicine in the 16th and 17th Century
  • Ambroise Pare (1517-1590)
  • Peter Franco (1505-1570)
  • Gaspar Tagliacozzi (1545-1599)
  • Fabricius Hildanes (1560-1639)
  • Richard Wiseman (1625-1686)
  • Marcus Aurelius Severinus (1580-1656)
  • Peter Marchettis (1589-1675)
  • Jan Baptista van Helmont (1578-1644)
  • Thomas Willis (1622-1675)
  • Borelli, of Naples (1608-1679)
  • Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)
• Philosopher-Scientists and new Institutions
  • Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
  • Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
  • Gottfried Leibnitz (1646-1716)
• 18th century Anatomy and Physiology (part 1)
  • Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777)
  • Battista Morgagni (1682-1771)
  • William Hunter (1718-1783)
  • John Hunter (1728-1793)
  • Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799)
  • Chemical Theory of Digestion
  • The Function of Respiration
  • Erasumus Darwin and Vegetable Physiology
• 18th century Anatomy and Physiology (part 2)
• 18th century Anatomy and Physiology (part 3)
• 19th century Anatomy
  • Cuvier
  • Marie Francois Bichat
  • Joseph Jackson Lister
• 19th century Anatomy and Physiology
  • Robert Brown and the Cell Nucleus
  • Schleiden and Schwann The Cell Theory
  • The Cell Theory
• 19th century Anatomy and Physiology
• Theories of Evolution
  • Goethe and the Metamorphosis of Parts
  • Erasmus Darwin
  • Lamarck versus Cuvier
• Theories of Evolution-Darwin
• 18th century Medicine
• 19th century medicine
• 19th century medicine
• Brain and Mind
• Brain Structure

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History Pages:

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Arabian Medicine | Mediaeval | The great anatomists | The coming of Harvey | Leeuwenhoek16th and 17th Medicine | Philosopher-Scientists | 18C Anat/Physiol | Part 2 | Part 3 | 19th C Anat/ Phys Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Evolution Part 1 | Part 2 | Medicine 18th | 19th Pt1 | 19th Pt2 | Brain and Mind | Brain Structure

Development Notes ----------------- Menstrual Cycle Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Placenta Serial Images Genes/DNA Molecular Dev Abnormal Dev Postnatal Dev Notes Index

System Notes ----------------- Heart/Cardiovascular Respiratory Coelomic cavity Gastrointestinal Tract Head and Neck Neural Neural Crest Eye Ear Nose Endocrine Urogenital Musculoskeletal Integumentary

Movies ----------------- Embryo Growth Ultrasound Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Stage 13/14 Stage 22 Neural Head and Neck Heart Vasculature Gastrointestinal Urogenital Other Embryos Larsen Internet

Other Embryos ----------------- Chicken Fly Frog Mouse Rabbit Rat Worm Zebrafish Guinea Pig

Glossary

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Comments

Introduction- A History of Science

I have included extracts from the 4 volume set of A HISTORY OF SCIENCE by Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D. assisted by Edward H. Williams, M.D. A set of texts published early in the 20th century. I recommend reading the 4 volumes as they are an interesting read and written with a different "feel" in language to those texts written today where brevity is carried to such lengths as to make most writings either bland or uninteresting.

This section of notes provides an historic context for the notes covering recent developments in Embryology Research.

Please email Dr Mark Hill if you wish to make a comment about this current project.

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