All his life, Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), the founder of modern microscopic anatomy, was unwillingly involved in difficult debates within a reactionary medical milieu that questioned the significan...
This work documents the progressive gain in knowledge on renal anatomy acquired by anatomists from Galen to Malpighi. Galen, with albeit his rather imaginative explanations, was the first anatomist to...
The permeability of microvessels to water and small hydrophilic solutes varies considerably between different vascular beds and even between individual vessels in the same vascular bed. Provided the t...