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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1946, this book examines the writing and controversy of Jean Fernel's The Natural Part of Medicine, the 1542 publication that attempted to replace Galen's treatise on physiology. Sherrington assesses Fernel's impact on the field of medical writing, and includes multiple plates illustrating early editions of Fernel's treatise.
Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Part I. The Struggle and its Aims; Part II. The Earliest 'Physiology'; Part III. Success and the Close; Appendix, Notes, Etc.: 1. Biographical notices of Fernel Guillaume Plancy; 2. Plancy's 'Life' of Fernel; 3. Clichtoveus; 4. 'Insidiosae pacis'; 5. Jacques Govea; 6. Goulin's researches regarding Fernel; 7. Shellfish and the moon; 8. Valcher's tractates; 9. Riolan the Elder's works on Fernel; 10. The fatal tourney-wound of Henri II of France; 11. Other portraits of Fernel; 12. Guy Patin; 13. The text of the 'Physiology' of 1554; 14. Boerhaave's recommendation of books for medical curriculum; 15. Nicolas Leonicenus; 16. Thomas Lunacre; 17. Passage in the Pathologia, 1567; 18. Laurent Joubert's Paradoxes; 19. Fracastor on cause of syphilis; List of editions of the writings of Jean Fernel; Chronology of events; Index.
