. Annals of medical history. air wasnot nourished by the blood. He confirmshis beliefs by relating stories of how hairgrew on hides and other dead organicmaterial, and also cites Pare who speaksof having an embalmed body in his housefor twenty-five years, on which the hair andnails grew out as often as he clipped taught that the hair was nour-ished by the blood. Another scholar who,against Galen and with Hippocrates, taughtthat the hair was nourished from within,was Plemp, a Dutch doctor and disciple ofSpregel. He said that the hair was a part ofthe body, having life with it; but h
. Annals of medical history. air wasnot nourished by the blood. He confirmshis beliefs by relating stories of how hairgrew on hides and other dead organicmaterial, and also cites Pare who speaksof having an embalmed body in his housefor twenty-five years, on which the hair andnails grew out as often as he clipped taught that the hair was nour-ished by the blood. Another scholar who,against Galen and with Hippocrates, taughtthat the hair was nourished from within,was Plemp, a Dutch doctor and disciple ofSpregel. He said that the hair was a part ofthe body, having life with it; but he did notdare deny that hair continued to grow onhides. In order to explain this last conditionhe described a kind of vcfrctative life which continued for a time after the bodysdeath. But Bartholin remained uncon-vinced and the absurd citation from Parestill remained in the last edition of hisAnatomy (1673). About this time Bartholin was made thevictim of a long continued and bittercriticism from the pen of Riolan. He speaks. Thomas Bartholin. of Bartholin as having in several placesinserted the investigations of others withoutnaming his source, criticizes him for notcarrying on more independent and originalinvestigations and points with ridicule to adiscussion found in Bartholins Anatomy,where he describes the development of achild in the stomach with subsequent birththrough the mouth. Bartholin here cites ashis authority Salmuth, a physician inAnhalt. The third edition of Bartholins Anat-omy was published by Hack in Leyden in1651. This book presented a distinct im-provement over the earlier editions notonly because of many changes brought .4n?ia/.v of Medical IlisUny about Idv the criticisms of others butespecially because it contained the resultsof some of Bartholins own dissections,which he had performed since his occupa-tion of the anatomical chair with acquisitionof the new anatomical theatre, for example,the discovery of a new muscle, musculuspsoas miiwr. The arrangement
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