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Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction: Anatomy, Medicine, and the New Philosophy | p. 1 |
Anatomical Research in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century | p. 1 |
Malpighi's Role on the Anatomical Stage | p. 4 |
Medical Locations: The Sites of Malpighi's Work | p. 6 |
Mechanism and Mechanics | p. 12 |
Experiment and Collaboration | p. 16 |
Disease and Anatomy | p. 20 |
Structure and Organization | p. 22 |
The Rise of Mechanistic and Microscopic Anatomy: Malpighi's Formation and Association with Borelli | p. 27 |
The New Anatomy, the Lungs, and Respiration | p. 31 |
Changing Anatomical Horizons | p. 31 |
Malpighi's Bologna Apprenticeship: Anatomical Venues and Vivisection | p. 32 |
Malpighi's Pisa Apprenticeship: Microscopy and the New Philosophy | p. 40 |
Malpighi's Epistolae on the Lungs | p. 45 |
The Purpose of Respiration: Thruston, Lower, and Hooke | p. 50 |
Epidemic Fevers and the Challenge to Galenism | p. 56 |
Galenic Traditions and New Medical Thinking | p. 56 |
Borelli and the Sicilian Epidemics of 1647-48 | p. 58 |
Borelli, Malpighi, and the Pisa Epidemics of 1661 | p. 63 |
The 1665 Controversy between the Neoterics and the Galenists | p. 65 |
Malpighi's Risposta to Galenistarum triumphus | p. 69 |
The Anatomy of the Brain and of the Sensory Organs | p. 75 |
Atomism and the Anatomy of the Senses | p. 75 |
Brain Research in the 1660s: Willis, Steno, and Malpighi | p. 76 |
Malpighi's Anatomical Findings on Taste and Touch | p. 88 |
Fracassati's Far-Reaching Investigations | p. 93 |
Bellini and Rossetti: Atomistic Anatomy of Taste and Touch | p. 97 |
Secretion and the Mechanical Organization of the Body: Glands as the Centerpiece of Malpighi's Investigations | p. 103 |
The Glandular Structure of the Viscera | p. 105 |
The Revival of Glands | p. 105 |
Changing Perceptions on Glands: Glisson, Wharton, and Steno | p. 106 |
Malpighi's Treatise on the Liver | p. 113 |
The Brain and the Cerebral Cortex | p. 119 |
The Kidneys: Bellini and Malpighi | p. 121 |
The Spleen and Its Problems | p. 124 |
Far, Blood, and the Body's Organization | p. 130 |
The Necessity of Matter and the Animal's Benefit | p. 130 |
Descartes on Fat, Blood, and Nutrition | p. 132 |
Malpighi on Fat and Its Philosophical Implications | p. 134 |
Blood Transfusions | p. 138 |
Malpighi on Heart Polyps and the Nature of Blood | p. 142 |
The Structure of Glands and the Problem of Secretion | p. 150 |
Different Perspectives on Glands | p. 150 |
Intestinal Glands and Their Implications | p. 151 |
The Mode of Operation of Glands | p. 158 |
Glands in the Theatre: Bellini, Sbaraglia, and Malpighi | p. 160 |
Nuck's New Taxonomy of Glands | p. 165 |
Between Anatomy and Natural History: Malpighi the Royal Society | p. 171 |
The Challenge of Insects | p. 175 |
Changing Perceptions on Insects | p. 175 |
Redi: Experiments and Generation | p. 179 |
Malpighi: Historia and Anatomy | p. 186 |
Swammerdam: Metamorphosis and Classification | p. 194 |
Swammerdam and Malpighi: Microstructure and Iconography | p. 201 |
Generation and the Formation of the Chick in the Egg | p. 208 |
Generation and Its Problems | p. 208 |
Harvey: Epigenesis and the Role of the Faculties | p. 210 |
The Organs of Generation and the Problem of Fecundation | p. 215 |
Swammerdam and the Amsterdam Circle on Preformation | p. 224 |
Malpighi and the Formation of the Chick in the Egg | p. 227 |
The Anatomy of Plants | p. 234 |
Plants between Anatomy and Natural History | p. 234 |
Malpighi s Anatomy of Plants: Structure, Iconography, and Experiment | p. 237 |
Trionfetti, Malpighi, Cestoni, and the Vegetation of Plants | p. 254 |
Grew and Camerarius: Iconography, ô$$$Economy,ö and Sexual Reproduction | p. 262 |
Anatomy, Pathology, and Therapy: Malpighi's Posthumous Writings | p. 271 |
The Fortunes of Malpighi's Mechanistic Anatomy | p. 275 |
Mechanistic Anatomy and Malpighi's Vita | p. 275 |
Writing about the Self | p. 276 |
Levels of Mechanical Explanation in Borelli and Malpighi | p. 280 |
Paolo Mini and the Soul-Body Problem | p. 289 |
Ruysch's Challenge and Boerhaave | p. 296 |
From the New Anatomy to Pathology and Therapy | p. 307 |
A Bologna Controversy and Its Wider Implications | p. 307 |
Sbaraglias Challenge to Malpighi's Research | p. 309 |
Malpighi: The Medical Significance of the New Anatomy | p. 311 |
Sbaraglias Empiricism and Methodological Concerns | p. 321 |
Young Morgagni s Covert Intervention | p. 326 |
Medical Consultations | p. 331 |
Between Theory and Practice, Carnival and Lent | p. 331 |
Publishing Malpighi's Consultations | p. 334 |
Structure and Contents of Malpighi's Consultations | p. 338 |
Curing with the Pen: Francesco Redi | p. 344 |
A Broader Look at Medical Consultations: Vallisneri and Morgagni | p. 349 |
Epilogue | p. 355 |
List of Abbreviations | p. 365 |
Notes | p. 367 |
Referrnces | p. 403 |
Index | p. 427 |
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