Evan R. Ragland

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Experimenting with chymical bodies: Reinier de Graaf's investigations of the pancreas.
In the late seventeenth century, traditions in anatomy and chymistry came together to ground new theoretical and experimental approaches to understanding the animal body. The researches of Dutch… Expand
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Mechanism, the Senses, and Reason: Franciscus Sylvius and Leiden Debates Over Anatomical Knowledge After Harvey and Descartes
By the mid-seventeenth century, philosophy, anatomy, and chymistry were inextricably bound together, and concentrated in lively debates over the action of the heart. In the wake of Harvey’s… Expand
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Introduction Analysis and Synthesis in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The close ties between theory and practice in the history of chemistry are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the emphasis on analysis and synthesis. Historically, these terms can be applied to a… Expand
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Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome , written by Maria Pia Donato, trans. Valentina Mazzei, 2014
Experimental Clinical Medicine and Drug Action in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Leiden
summary:Leiden University boasted one of the most popular and influential medical schools of the mid-seventeenth century, drawing hundreds of students from across Europe. These students participated… Expand
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“Making Trials” in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century European Academic Medicine
Throughout the sixteenth century, learned physicians across Europe performed a diverse array of “trials” of phenomena and published reports about them. This essay traces the phrase “periculum facere”… Expand
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Between Certain Metaphysics and the Senses: Cataloging and Evaluating Cartesian Empiricisms
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Analysis and Synthesis in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The close ties between theory and practice in the history of chemistry are perhaps nowhere more evident than in the emphasis on analysis and synthesis. Historically, these terms can be applied to a… Expand
Michael Stolberg. Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe. Translated by Logan Kennedy and Leonhard Unglaub. (History of Medicine in Context.) x + 196 pp., figs., illus., bibl., index. Farnham, Surrey:…
Experimenting with chemical bodies: Science, medicine, and philosophy in the long history of Reinier de Graaf's experiments on digestion, from Harvey and Descartes to Claude Bernard
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