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Title: Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stirling, William, 1851-1932
Subjects: Physiology Physiologists Physiology
Publisher: London : Priv. print. by Waterlow and sons limited
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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of the Huntersand Black, accmired a European fame. ( 60 ) LAZZARO SPALLANZANI. 1729-1799. MORE frequently spoken of as the Abbe, for lie took orders, buthis bias was towards natural history. It was only the otherday that his compatriots in Science celebrated the firstcentenary of his deatli by issuing a volume of contributions in hishonour. The collotype is taken from the profile drawing in this volumeissued at Reggio-Emilia on this occasion. The figure of the bust ofSpallanzani adorns the Scuola called after him in the new PhysiologicalLaboratory of the University of Modena. I owe it and several othersto the kindness of Professor Mariano L. Patrizi, of Modena. Born at Scandiano in Reggio-Emilia, the son of a celebratedadvocate, he received a liberal education with a view to his entering thelegal profession. He studied law in Bologna, there also he studiedmathematics under his cousin, Laura Bassi, a woman justly cele-brated for her genius, her eloquence, and her knowledge of physical
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FROM A BUST IX THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY IX THE UNIVERSITY OF MODENA. ( 61 ) and mathematical science, and one of the most illustrious Professors inBologna (J. Senebier). Vallisnieri, Professor of Natural History,Padua, advised him to study natural history, and his father con-sented to his following the bent of his own inclinations. From 1754 to 1760 he was Professor of Logic, Mathematics, andGreek at Reggio in Lombardy, and then of Natural History inModena, where he remained until 1768, when he accepted the corre-sponding Chair in Pavia, where he died in 1799 ; his physician was theillustrious Scarpa. He journeyed much, and collected much, for he wasessentially a great naturalist of the widest sympathies. In 1765 hejxiblished his Saggio di Osserv. microscop. concern, il systema di Needhame Bnffon, in which he established the animal nature of animalculse, andtheir development from pre-existing parents; and showed that there wasno such thing as a spontaneous generation of these creat

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