Sanctorius

The Cold-Water Test Although it was invented 400 years ago by Sanctorius, the thermometer has been a common household appliance for only a few decades.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The Cold-Water Test Although it was invented 400 years ago by Sanctorius, the thermometer has been a common household appliance for only a few decades.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The physician Sanctorius spent his life in a pair of scales, weighing his food.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

Sanctorius worked with a pulsilogue devised for him by Galileo, with which he made observations on the pulse.

The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

But neither Sanctorius nor Harvey had the immediate influence upon their contemporaries which the novel and stimulating character of their work justified.

The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

With Sanctorius began the studies of temperature, respiration and the physics of the circulation.

The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

Since the days of Sanctorius the loss of weight of the body from period to period has been of special interest.

Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man Francis Gano Benedict 1913

Sanctorius discovered the fact that an ` ` insensible perspiration '' is being given off by the body continually, and was amazed to find that loss of weight in this way far exceeded the loss of weight by all other excretions of the body combined.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

The Iatrophysical school (also called iatromathematical, iatromechanical, or physiatric) was founded on theories of physiology, probably by Borelli, of Naples (1608-1679), although Sanctorius; Sanctorius, a professor at Padua, was a precursor, if not directly interested in establishing it.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

Sanctorius, in his _Medicina Statica Britannica_ (1718), published a series of daily (morning and evening) body-weights for the year, without referring to the question of a monthly cycle.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899