Cells Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/tag/cells/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 21:26:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Matthias Schleiden and the Genesis of Cell Theory https://bshm.org.uk/matthias-schleiden-and-the-genesis-of-cell-theory/ https://bshm.org.uk/matthias-schleiden-and-the-genesis-of-cell-theory/#respond Sun, 04 Feb 2024 21:26:39 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=17884 Wallace Mendelson describes how an encounter between two scientists resulted in the creation of cell theory. Matthias Jacob Schleiden (1804-1881), the son of a Hamburg physician, was trained in the law in Heidelberg, and in 1827 returned to his hometown and set up a practice. It was remarkably unsuccessful, and ultimately, he became depressed to […]

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