Mechanism, experiment, disease : Marcello Malpighi and seventeenth-century anatomy / Domenico Bertoloni Meli.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

xii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The new anatomy, the lungs, and respiration -- Epidemic fevers and the challenge to Galenism -- The anatomy of the brain and of the sensory organs -- The glandular structure of the viscera -- Fat, blood, and the body's organization -- The structure of glands and the problem of secretion -- The challenge of insects -- Generation and the formation of the chick in the egg -- The anatomy of plants -- The fortunes of Malpighi's mechanistic anatomy -- From the new anatomy to pathology and therapy -- Medical consultations.