Since antiquity and in every culture, blood has always been considered emblem of life, a source of nutrition, the seat of the vital spirit and soul. With the development of scientific thought this fluid has progressively been interpreted in a pathophysiological sense, as the basis of the mechanisms underlying the body’s metabolism in health and disease. A fundamental turning point came with the publication in 1628 of William Harvey’s scientific masterpiece Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus. The heterogeneity of body structures found then a common ground for functional unification: the blood
The birth of Italian hematology and the foundation of Haematologica
Mazzarello, P.
2020-01-01
Abstract
Since antiquity and in every culture, blood has always been considered emblem of life, a source of nutrition, the seat of the vital spirit and soul. With the development of scientific thought this fluid has progressively been interpreted in a pathophysiological sense, as the basis of the mechanisms underlying the body’s metabolism in health and disease. A fundamental turning point came with the publication in 1628 of William Harvey’s scientific masterpiece Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus. The heterogeneity of body structures found then a common ground for functional unification: the bloodFile in questo prodotto:
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