BOHNI, Johannis. Circulus anatomico-physiologicus seu oeconomia corporis animalis. 1710.

Born in Leipzig in 1640, Johannis Bohn, was named professor of anatomy in 1668.

Bohn was one of the most distinguished physicians of the seventeenth century. He works on all branches of medical science, but he became famous for the works he composed on the physiology and forensic science.
Fourth edition of "Circulus anatomical-physiologicus" - "complete system of physiology in which the author takes the man with the original formation of the embryo, and the following functions in the natural order of development. Partisans reserved the iatrogenic mechanism, it admits as proven the idea that the movement of the heart can be compared to that of a hydraulic machine, but he blames the views of Borelli, that during systole of the ventricles, the atria contract and close completely .... "(Dezeimeris).
"Bohn experimented on the decapited frog, declaring the reflex phenomena to be entirely material and mechanical, the general view of the time being that "vital spirits" were present in the nerve-fluid. Bohn showed that the nerves do not contain a "nerve juice". (Morton).
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