TIMOTHY LENOIR, The strategy of life. Teleology and mechanics in nineteenth-century German biology, Dordrecht, D. Reidel, 1982, 8vo, pp. xii, 314, illus., Dfl.135.00. A survey of early nineteenth-century German biology is long overdue, and Lenoir's study of the transition from intuitive Naturphilosophie to the empirical morphology of the Gottingen school is incisive and important. Lenoir counte...

TIMOTHY LENOIR, The strategy of life. Teleology and mechanics in nineteenth-century German biology, Dordrecht, D. Reidel, 1982, 8vo, pp. xii, 314, illus., Dfl.135.00. A survey of early nineteenth-century German biology is long overdue, and Lenoir's study of the transition from intuitive Naturphilosophie to the empirical morphology of the Gottingen school is incisive and important. Lenoir counte...

After an introduction on the role of colonial medicine in India, each of the following essays deals with a particular aspect of the subject. One takes up the role of British doctors in their assigned duty to protect the health of British soldiers on one hand and Indian prisoners on the other. Three deal with particular diseases-smallpox, cholera, and plague-chosen for the political controversy ...

and with the new social order associated with industrialization and urban life. He understands these attitudes to be derivative of humanitarian sentiments displaced upon animals, the distinction between man and beast having been eroded by physiological and taxonomic studies in the eighteenth century. While his interpretation appears reasonable and persuasive, it is really not adequate to explai...

phenomena. Only in mid-century did the situation improve; but it was not until the last twenty-five years of the nineteenth century that, having overcome the serious crisis facing it at all levels, the country was able to lay the bases that would allow it to renounce definitively a doctrinal physiology burdened by numerous ideological obstacles, and to enter fully, in the first third of the cur...

frontal sinus fractures are of surgical importance because of the microbial flora covering the frontal air sinus and it's proximity with the duramater and brain. there is an increased risk of meningitis when fracture of the posterior wall of the frontal sinus is associated with a dural tear. in this condition, communication occurs between the contaminated space of the air sinus and the int...

In his seminal monograph on teleology and mechanics in nineteenth German biology Timothy Lenoir considers his study of the “Kantian” teleomechanistic tradition as an answer to those who wrongly believe that early nineteenth-century German biology was dominated by Schelling’s Naturphilosophie. My goal is to argue that this is an arbitrary assumption based on a historiographical bias and that Sch...

The duck-billed platypus, or Ornithorhynchus, was the subject of an intense debate among natural historians in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Its paradoxical mixture of mammalian, avian and reptilian characteristics made it something of a taxonomic conundrum. In the early 1820s Robert Jameson (1774-1854), the professor of natural history at the University of Edinburgh and t...