Volume 1

An introduction to the comparative anatomy of animals : compiled with constant reference to physiology, and elucidated by twenty copper-plates / by C. G. Carus; translated from the German, by R. T. Gore.

  • Carus, Carl Gustav, 1789-1869.
Date:
1827
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Credit: An introduction to the comparative anatomy of animals : compiled with constant reference to physiology, and elucidated by twenty copper-plates / by C. G. Carus; translated from the German, by R. T. Gore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    A GENERAL VIEW OF THE LITERATURE OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. A perfect review of all that has been done for Com- parative Anatomy from the most ancient to the most modern times would supply sufficient materials for an extensive treatise. As an abridgement may be quoted : C. F. Ludwig. Histories Anatomies et Physiologies corn- par antis brevis expositio. Lips. 1787, 4to. In this the history of the science is divided into four periods;* of which the first begins with the description of the sacrifice of victims, together with the practice of augury from the inspection of the viscera, including the labours of Aristotle, Pliny, ^Elian, Galen, and, at a later period, of Rondelet, Columbus, Coiter, and Aldrovandi. The second period extends from 1600 to 1685, during which the progress of the science was rapidly promoted by the exertions of Fabricius, Harvey, Severinus, Redi, Mal- pighi, Swammerdam, Perrault, Blasius, Muraltus, * Would it not be more suitable to reckon one period from the beginning of the science to the publication of the first work expressly treating of it, viz. Severini’s Zootomia Democritcca, 1645; another from thence, to Cuvier’s Lemons d'Anatomie comparce, 1799; and to commence the third and most recent with the year 1800 ?