The anatomist's vade mecum: containing the anatomy, physiology, morbid appearances, &c. of the human body; the art of making anatomical preparations, &c. ... / [Robert Hooper].

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835
Date:
1820
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Credit: The anatomist's vade mecum: containing the anatomy, physiology, morbid appearances, &c. of the human body; the art of making anatomical preparations, &c. ... / [Robert Hooper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Xl our drink. Of the organ of hearing, it is concluded, he knew little, for he only mentions the tympanum. Of the brain, which he thought a gland (an idea which has since been erroneously supposed to be- long to Malpighi), the nerves and their uses, vision and the senses, he was totally ignorant as to the causes; yet he makes the brain the seat of wisdom. The glands he imperfectly understood. The Py- thagorean doctrines of conception, generation, and pregnancy, are, in general, absurd and _ supersti- tious; as likewise his notions of the Pythagorean numbers, which seem to have been the prevailing philosophical follies of the day. On moles, false conceptions, and the nourishment of the foetus, a rational judgment is formed ; he comprehended the communication from the mother to the foetus by means of the umbilical eord; though, in another place, he supposes that it absorbs nutriment by the: mouth, and from the surrounding fluid in the ovum. After Hippocrates, anatomy continued to be improved; but, as opportunities were extremely li- mited, from the prejudices of mankind, its progress. was but slow,. and chiefly confined to the two schools. ef Athens and Alexandria. In the former, the names of Socrates, Prato, XENOPHON, ARIS- TOTLE, and THreopHrRASTUS, are still preserved. along with many of their works; and, although we: A 6 3