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For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.
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This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the heart begins to beat, but the heart exists and even beats before the blood reddens.
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Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.
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It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick pre-exist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.
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The generation of seeds...is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears...Its extremity gradually expands and after gathering a colliquamentous ichor becomes analogous to an amnion...In the course of time the seed or fetus begins to become visible.
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In such sad circumstances I but see myself exhalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rational medicine and anatomy fall, as if I were myself these noble disciplines.
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The seed is the fetus, in other words, a true plant with its parts (that is, its leaves, of which there are usually two, its stalk or stem, and its bud) completely fashioned.
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Marcello Malpighi
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Born:
March 10, 1628
Died:
November 29, 1694
(aged 66)
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Marcello Malpighi was an Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "Father of microscopical anatomy, histology, physiology and embryology".
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