A loaf here, a fish there
Roy Porter, 15 November 1984
Science and Medicine in France: The Emergence of Experimental Physiology 1790-1855
by John Lesch.
Harvard, 276 pp., £20, September 1984,0 674 79400 1 Show More
by John Lesch.
Harvard, 276 pp., £20, September 1984,
Georges Cuvier: Vocation, Science and Authority in Post-Revolutionary France
by Dorinda Outram.
Manchester, 299 pp., £25, October 1984,0 7190 1077 2 Show More
by Dorinda Outram.
Manchester, 299 pp., £25, October 1984,
“... in this field through the first half of the 19th century, from Xavier Bichat to Claude Bernard, created something significantly new. For the first time, a programme of vivisection experiments upon animals was set in motion, deploying surgical intervention (sectioning, ablation, etc) to explore, under vigorously controlled conditions, problems such ... ”