ABSTRACT
THE development of Capitalist industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created a demand for technical development, for the concentration of masses of food products and for various sorts of raw materials which needed working up. In its turn the satisfaction of this demand exacted an increased development of natural science and the nineteenth century has often been called the age of science. The concentration of the population into large towns, grouped around factories and mills, also required a deeper development of medical science, the success of which is bound up with the progress of science in general, and so accelerated the rapid advance of the latter.
