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Title: Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stirling, William, 1851-1932
Subjects: Physiology Physiologists Physiology
Publisher: London : Priv. print. by Waterlow and sons limited
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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. In 1729 he gave up theChair of Botany and Chemistry. In 1730 he was admitted to theRoyal Society of London. He died, with the symptoms of hydro-thorax, on September 23rd, 1738. He assisted in the re-publicationof many works of the older anatomists : Eustachius (1707); Vesalius,jointly with B. and B. S. Albinus (1725), but probably the latterwrote most of the additions (the plate marked Vesalius Demon-strating is from this edition); Bellini, De Urinis, Pulsibus (1730) ;J. Swammerdam, Historia Insectorum, sive Biblia Naturae (1737), awork to which we have already referred. RENE A. F. DE REAUMUR. 1683-1757. TOWARDS the end of the seventeenth century there was born inthe old Huguenot town of La Rochelle—famous in scientificstory as the place where Walsh made his first experiments onelectrical phenomena of the torpedo (1773), and in political history byits famous siege—one who stands out as one of the most versatile andstrikingly original scientific men of all time. His private means
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( 55 ) were ample, and he studied just to please himself. During his schoolholidays, as he lived near the sea, he studied the murex, that yieldsthe Tyrian purple, the process of reproduction of lost limbs in crabs,the movements of star fishes, phosphorescence (1708-1715). Alreadyhis scientific bias declared itself. He in later life made importantcontributions to the problem of the manufacture of steel and tin-plating, to the making of porcelain (1735), and devoted much attentionto forestry. His observations on the silk of spiders were made in1714. The thermometer which bears his name was invented in 1731.His other great works were Insects, in 1737-48 (12 vols.); Incuba-tion of the Chick, and, what concerns us most, Sur la Digestiondes Oiseaux (Digestion of Birds), Mem. cles Acad, des Sc, Paris 1752,p. 266, though the work was begun in 1749. He was killed by a fallfrom his horse in 1757. He made use of a fact in comparative anatomy, viz., that certainbirds regurgitate the indigestible

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