CHAPTER III

THE ANIMAL MACHINE

For further insight into the activities of the animal machine, the

reader may refer to various chapters on the progress of physiology and

anatomy in earlier volumes. The following references will guide to the

accounts of the successive advances from the earliest time:

Vol. I., pp. 194, 195 describe briefly the earlier anatomical studies

of the Alexandrian physicians, Herophilus and Erasistratus; and pp.

282, 283, outline the studies of the famous physician, Galen.

Vol. II., "From Paracelsus to Harvey," in particular, p. 163 _seq._;

and chapters IV. (p. 173 _seq._) and V. (p. 202 _seq._) dealing with

the progress of anatomy and physiology in the eighteenth and nineteenth

centuries respectively. The chapter on "Experimental Psychology" (p.

245 _seq._) may also be consulted.

Vol. V., chapter V., dealing with the Marine Biological Laboratory

at Naples (p. 113 _seq._) and chapter VI., "Ernst Haeckel and the

New Zoology" (p. 144 _seq._) present other aspects of physiological

problems.

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