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This document summarizes the history and concepts of vitalism. Vitalism holds that living organisms contain some non-physical element that distinguishes them from non-living things. The document traces vitalism from ancient philosophers like Aristotle to its prominence in the 16th-17th centuries in response to mechanistic explanations of biology. It discusses how vitalism was applied in fields like physiology, chemistry, and developmental biology and important figures like Bichat, Liebig, and Pasteur who ad

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OmerFarooq

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