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experimental physiology
Since the middle of the 19th Century, laboratories were creating
a new physiology and pathology. Beyond the diversity and confrontation
of methodological criteria from European schools, a systematisation
of laboratory research based upon experimental verification
of proposed hypotheses became preponderant.
Life signs were the object of study and research in the laboratory,
which became a place of knowledge production according to
a methodology slowly specified. If the development of experimental
physiology arrived late to Catalonia, initiatives carried
out through the first third of the 20th Century brought a
spectacular change to medical education and practices. The
Museum collection accounts for this evolution from a great
number of instruments related to experimental practices in
the laboratory and the functional proofs introduced in clinical
practice, such as the kymograph, the galvanometer or electrical
current machinery.
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