The University of Wisconsin Medical School: A Chronicle, 1848–1948
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Bartholin and Rudbeck. During the eighteenth century the humours and qualities of Galenic theory were gradually replaced by physico-chemical conceptions. In the nineteenth century the rise of the cell theory was reflected in hepatology by Purkinje and Henle's description of liver cell structure and crowned by Claude Bernard's characterization of the liver cell as a chemical laboratory and centre of metabolism. After a brief eclipse of the importance of the liver-when it seemed no more than an excretory organ-it regained a position in the new physiology as important and central as that which it had once held in the old. In a curious way it even regained something of its old status as a centre of blood formation when Reichert and Koelliker described the formation of blood cells in the foetal liver. Dr. Mani has enriched medical history with a fine and scholarly work. One hopes that his book will prove to be the first of a genre to include eventually (with the co-operation of other medical historians) all of the organs and tissues of the body. I have only some minor complaints to make. In view of the importance rightly accorded to Galen it seems a pity that he is dismissed in somewhat less than two thousand words. While it is true that some aspects of Galen's hepatology were touched on in Dr. Mani's earlier monograph, cited above, in neither work are the foundations of Galen's physiology adequately presented. Secondly, the text has been overly subdivided into a plethora of numbered and lettered sections and subsections. Many paragraphs consist of only one or two sentences and sometimes resemble notebook entries rather than a fully worked up text. This gives rise to an excess of white paper on the printed page. Together with the jerkiness of style the effect, unfortunately, is to interfere somewhat with the reader's pleasure. L. J. RATHER
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 13 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1969