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• Man a Machine, by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, trans. by Gertrude Carman Bussey (HTML with notes at bactra.org)
• Man a Machine (with Frederick the Great's eulogy of the author; Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1912), by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, trans. by Gertrude Carman Bussey and Mary Whiton Calkins, contrib. by King of Prussia Frederick II
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• La Medecine théologique, ou La medecine créée : telle qu'elle se fait voir ici, sortie des mains de Dieu ... & régie par ses loix : ouvrage ou s'explique l'hygiene par les principes du méchanisme ... : on y joint à la fin les Thèses de médecine de l'auteur de ce traité : Tome premier. (chez Guillaume Cavelier ..., 1733), by Philippe Hecquet and Guillaume Cavelier (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Medecine théologique, ou La medecine créée : telle qu'elle se fait voir ici, sortie des mains de Dieu ... & régie par ses loix : ouvrage ou s'explique l'hygiene par les principes du méchanisme ... : on y joint à la fin les Thèses de médecine de l'auteur de ce traité : Tome second. (chez Guillaume Cavelier ..., 1733), by Philippe Hecquet and Guillaume Cavelier (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Art de jouir (Bossard, 1921), by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Maurice Solovine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mechanistic conception of life; biological essays (The University of Chicago press, 1912), by Jacques Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microcosmus : an essay concerning man and his relation to the world (T. & T. Clark, 1885), by Hermann Lotze, Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones, and Elizabeth Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mikrokosmus : Ideen zur Naturgeschichte und Geschichte der Menschheit : Versuch einer Anthropologie (S. Hirzel, 1888), by Hermann Lotze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microcosmus : an essay concerning man and his relation to the world (Scribner & Welford, 1890), by Hermann Lotze, Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones, and Elizabeth Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanismus und Teliologie : eine Abhandlung über die Principien der Naturforschung (O. R. Reisland, 1890), by Franz Erhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Grenzen des mechanischen Geschehens im Seelenleben des Menschen nach Lotze (K. Belau, 1901), by Karl Belau (page images at HathiTrust)
• A surgeon's philosophy (Doubleday, Page and company, 1915), by Robert T. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mikrokosmus : Ideen zur Naturgeschichte und Geschichte der Menschheit : Versuch einer Anthropologie (S. Hirzel, 1885), by Hermann Lotze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microcosmus: an essay concerning man and his relation to the world. (Scribner & Welford, 1886), by Hermann Lotze, E. E. Constance Jones, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Scribner & Welford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Welt ohne Räthsel : die consequente Durchführung der modernen naturwissenschaftlischen Auffassung des Daseins als einen Mechanismus, unter Bezugnahme auf Häckels neuestes Werk "Die Welträthsel" (A. Strauch, 1900), by Julius B. Staub (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mikrokosmus : Ideen zur Naturgeschichte und Geschichte der Menschheit ; Versuch einer Anthropologie (S. Hirzel, 1876), by Hermann Lotze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in the theory of descent (AMS Press, 1975), by August Weismann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der mechanische Monismus eine Kritik der modernen Weltanschauung (F. Schöningh, 1893), by Constantin Gutberlet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microcosmus: an essay concerning man and his relation to the world. (Scribner & Welford, 1885), by Hermann Lotze, E. E. Constance Jones, and Elizabeth Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• An explanation of a mechanical philosophy ([s.n.], 1901), by J. J. Van Nostrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microcosmus : an essay concerning man and his relation to the world (T. & T. Clark, 1888), by Hermann Lotze, E. E. Constance Jones, and Elizabeth Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microcosmus : an essay concerning man and his relation to the world (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Hermann Lotze, E. E. Constance Jones, and Elizabeth Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Grenzen der mechanischen Naturerklärung. Zur Widerlegung der materialistischen Weltansicht. (E. Weber, 1875), by Georg Hertling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mikrokosmus. Ideen zur naturgeschichte und geschichte der menschheit. (F. Meiner, 1923), by Hermann Lotze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in the Theory of Descent (Volumes 1 and 2), by August Weismann, trans. by Raphael Meldola, contrib. by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Studies in the Theory of Descent, Volume II, by August Weismann, trans. by Raphael Meldola, contrib. by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Studies in the Theory of Descent, Volume I, by August Weismann, trans. by Raphael Meldola, contrib. by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Historie of Life and Death, With Observations Naturall and Experimentall For the Prolonging of Life (London: Printed by I. Okes for H. Mosley, 1638), by Francis Bacon
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• Historia vitae et mortis. English (London : Printed by Iohn Haviland for William Lee, and Humphrey Mosley, 1638), by Francis Bacon and William Rawley (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Historie of Life and Death, With Observations Naturall and Experimentall For the Prolonging of Life (London: Printed by I. Okes for H. Mosley, 1638), by Francis Bacon
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• Historia vitae et mortis. English (London : Printed by Iohn Haviland for William Lee, and Humphrey Mosley, 1638), by Francis Bacon and William Rawley (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Aristotle's Compleat Master-Piece, in Three Parts (17th edition, 1728), by Pseudo Aristotele (page images at NIH)
• The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher (the 1735 canon of this pseudonymous work), by Pseudo Aristotele (HTML with commentary at exclassics.com)
• Dissertations relative to the natural history of animals and vegetables (Printed for J. Murray., 1789), by Lazzaro Spallanzani (page images at HathiTrust)
• De generatione animalium (Blarendon press, 1910), by Aristotle and Arthur Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• La venere fisica (per Antonio Graziosi, 1767), by Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Diodato Anniani, Antonio Graziosi, and Francesco Hiarca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speculations on the mode and appearances of impregnation in the human female : With an examination of the present theories of generation (for C. Elliot, Edinburgh and C. Elliot & T. Kay, London, 1789), by Robert Couper, T. Kay, and Charles Elliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• La génération, ou Exposition des phénomenes relatifs a cette fonction naturelle : de leur méchanisme, de leurs causes respectives & des effets immédiats qui en résultent (Chez Des Ventes de la Doué, libraire ..., 1774), by Albrecht von Haller and Piet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Génération de l'homme (Chez J. Ryckhoff, Libraire, 1778), by Nicolas Venette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tractatus duo. (Sumtibus Wolfgangi Mauritii Endteri, & Johannis Andreae Endteri haeredum, 1677), by Honoré Fabri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galeotti Martii Narniensis De homine libri duo ([Davis, Calif.?] : [University of California, Davis?], [1976?}, 1976), by Galeotto Marzio, Johannes Jessenius, and Giorgio Merula (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observationes et historiae omnes & singulae è Guijielmi Harvei libello De generatione animalium excerptae, & in accuratissimum ordinem redactae : item Wilhelmi Langly De generatione animalium observationes quaedam : accedunt Ovi faecundi singulis ab incubatione diebus factae inspectiones : ut et Observationum anatomico-med. decades quatuor, denique Cadavara balsamo condiendi modus (Typis Abrahami Wolfgang, 1674), by William Harvey, Romeyn de Hooghe, Wilhelmus Langley, and Justus Schrader (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophical observations on the analogy between the propagation of animals and that of vegetables ... (C. Davis, 1752), by James Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• De generatione animalium. English (London : Printed by James Young, for Octavian Pulleyn, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1653), by William Harvey and Martin Lluelyn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The history of generation examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his discourse of bodies : with a general relation of the manner of generation, as well in plants as animals : with some figures delineating the first originals of some creatures ... : to which is joyned, A discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy, or without any real applycation of medicines to the part affected, but especially by that powder, known chiefly by the name of Sir Gilbert Talbots powder / by Nath. Highmore ... (London : Printed by R.N. for John Martin ..., 1651), by Nathaniel Highmore and Kenelm Digby (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Dissertation physique a l'occasion du negre blanc ([s.n.], 1744), by Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)

• C. Stalpartii vander Wiel ... Observationum rariorum medic. anatomic. chirurgicarum centuria posterioris pars prior : auctior longe, atque emendatior accedit P. Stalpartii vander Wiel ... De nutritione foetus exercitatio. (apud Petrum vander Aa, Bibliopolam, 1687), by C. Stalparti van der Wiel, Antonio Hernández Morejón, Miguel Borbón y Berné, Pieter van der Aa, Adriaan Schoonebeck, and Abraham de Blois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Martini Schoockii Disquisitio physica de signaturis foetus : in qua multi rari casus, & proponuntur & examinantur. (apud Henricum Lussinck ..., 1659), by Marten Schoock, Heinrich Lussinck, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• C. Stalpartii vander Wiel ... Observationum rariorum medic. anatomic. chirurgicarum centuria posterioris pars prior : auctior longe, atque emendatior accedit P. Stalpartii vander Wiel ... De nutritione foetus exercitatio. (apud Joannem à Kerkhem, 1727), by C. Stalparti van der Wiel and Johann Kerkhem (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato del parto naturale, e dei parti divenuti difficili per la cattiva situazione del feto. (nella stamperia di Grange, 1767), by Francesco Valle, Grangé, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prælectiones medico-anatomicæ de iis quæ spectant fœtum humanum in utero materno degentem ... habitae Tolosae in aula medicinae ... anni 1706 ... (apud G. Robert ..., 1706), by Armand Perpessac, Joseph Raulin, and G. Robert (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dissertation on the diseases of prisons and poor-houses : published at the request of the Medical Society of London ... : to which is added a singular case of praeter-natural foetation ... (published for C. Dilly ..., 1795), by Charles Dilly and Medical Society of London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Francisci Rosseti medici regii exercitatio medica assertionis nouae veri usus anastomoseon cardiacarum foetus, ex utero materno trans ipsas trahentis aerem internum in suos pulmones motus respiratorii ... (excudebat Dionysius Duvallius ..., 1603), by François Rousset, Denis Duval, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• In fictilem figuli exercitationem de principiis foetus, animadversiones, seu Dissertatio ad mentem Aristotelis De principio materiali generationis Foetus. (typis Guillelmi Besse ..., 1658), by André Graindorge, Guillaume Besse, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adriani Spigelii Bruxellensis ... De formato foetu liber singularis aeneis figuris exornatus, epistolae duæ anatomicæ. Tractatus de arthritide, opera posthuma studio ... (Impensis & Caelo Matthaei Meriani Bibliopolae & Chalcographi ... :, 1631), by Adriaan van den Spiegel, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Mathaeus Merianus (page images at HathiTrust)
• I. Sever. Pinaei Carnut. De integritatis et corruptionis virginum notis: graviditate item & partu naturali mulierum, opuscula. II. Ludov. Bonacioli Ferr. Enneas muliebris. III. Fel. Plateri Basil. de origine partium, earumque in utero conformatione. IV. Petri Gassendi De septo cordis pervio, obervatio. V. Melchioris Sebizii De notis virginitatis. Accedunt indices novi ac pleni ... (Apud Franciscum Hegerum, 1641), by Severin Pineau, Melchior Sebisch, Pierre Gassendi, Felix Platter, Luigi Bonacciuoli, Franz Heger, and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spicilegivm anatomicvm, continens observationum anatomicarum rariorum centuriam unam. (Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1670), by Theodor Kerckring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthropogeniae inchnographia (Amstelodami : Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, MDCLXXI [1671], 1671), by Theodor Kerckring, Abraham Blooteling, and Andreas Frisius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spicilegivm anatomicvm (Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1670), by Theodor Kerckring, Andreas Frisius, and Abraham Blooteling (page images at HathiTrust)

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