• MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• neurologie trendy   MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
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• lidé MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Československo MeSH

The findings obtained by the famous nineteenth-century Czech scientist Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787-1869) in the field of microscopic structure of animal and human tissues, including the brain, spinal cord, and nerves, have already been described in depth in a number of older and newer publications. The present article contains an overview of the instruments and tools that Purkyně and his assistants used for microscopic research of tissue histology. Some of these instruments were developed either by Purkyně alone, such as the microtomic compressor, or together with his assistant Adolph Oschatz, such as the microtome. A brief overview of the development of the cutting engines suggests that the first microtome, a prototype of modern sliding microtomes, was designed and constructed under the supervision of Purkyně at the Institute of Physiology in Wrocław. Purkyně and his assistants, thus, not only obtained important findings of animal and human nervous and other tissues but also substantially contributed to the development of instruments and tools for their study, a fact often forgotten today.

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• dějiny 19. století MeSH
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• mikroskopie dějiny   přístrojové vybavení   MeSH
• mikrotomie dějiny   přístrojové vybavení   MeSH
• neurovědy dějiny   přístrojové vybavení   MeSH
• výzkum dějiny   přístrojové vybavení   MeSH
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• dějiny 19. století MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• biografie MeSH
• časopisecké články MeSH
• historické články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Československo MeSH

• O autorovi
• Purkyně, Jan Evangelista, 1787-1869 Autorita

The treatise "De structura nervorum" by Jiří Procháska was published in 1779 and is remarkable not only for its anatomical and histological findings but also for its historical introduction, which contains a detailed bibliographical review of the contemporary knowledge of the structure of the nervous tissue. Unfortunately, the treatise has never been translated from the Latin language, but it deserves further analysis as a historical document about the level of neuroscience research conducted by a famous Czech scholar. The present article includes a historical overview of the contemporary knowledge of the structure of the nervous tissue up to the late eighteenth century from the perspective of today, a translation of selected chapters from Prochaska's treatise (a historical introduction about the medieval knowledge of the structure of the nervous tissue and an interpretation of his neurohistological observations), and an analysis of Jiří Prochaska's results in light of current knowledge.

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• dějiny 16. století MeSH
• dějiny 17. století MeSH
• dějiny 18. století MeSH
• dějiny 19. století MeSH
• dějiny starověku MeSH
• dějiny středověku MeSH
• lékařské ilustrace dějiny   MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• nervový systém anatomie a histologie   cytologie   MeSH
• neuroanatomie dějiny   MeSH
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• dějiny 16. století MeSH
• dějiny 17. století MeSH
• dějiny 18. století MeSH
• dějiny 19. století MeSH
• dějiny starověku MeSH
• dějiny středověku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• biografie MeSH
• časopisecké články MeSH
• historické články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Československo MeSH

• O autorovi
• Procháska, Jiří, 1749-1820 Autorita