Scottish Natural History

Scottish Society of the History of Medicine

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Scottish Society of the History of Medicine

dated 1638. While it bears a resemblance to the 'true' Hippocrates busts the chin seems very prominent and Richter mentions that this portrait is probably an 'invented one made up in the mind of the sculptor'. The reason for the portrayal of the prognathic chin remains an enigma. The third is a photograph of a lithograph (Figure 13) which appeared in 1825 ;25 this seems to resemble both the rin...

A HISTORY of the SCOTTISH PEOPLE THE SCOTTISH EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM 1840

Natural history , life history , and

We report on basic natural history, life history, and diet of Priapella chamulae (Poeciliidae) from Arroyo Tres, a small creek in Tabasco, southern México. The tertiary (adult) sex ratio was heavily female-skewed, female P. chamulae produced medium-sized offspring (~2.3 mg), one clutch at a time (i.e., showed no superfetation), and relied predominantly on yolk for embryo provisioning (Matrotrop...

Natural history and temporalization: reflections on Buffon's Natural history.

This article presents a rereading of Buffon's Natural History in the light of the concepts of temporal reversibility and irreversibility. The goal is to determine to what extent Buffon introduces a transformationist concept of natural forms in this work. To that effect, the main points of classical natural history and the doctrine of preformed germs are analyzed. Subsequently, Buffon's use of t...