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Title: Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stirling, William, 1851-1932
Subjects: Physiology Physiologists Physiology
Publisher: London : Priv. print. by Waterlow and sons limited
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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d to the foundation of hisArchiv f. mikroskopische Anatomie in 1865, and the first papertherein is his description of a hot stage for the investigation ofthe blood. Dilute chromic acid, iodized serum, osmic acid, wereintroduced into histological technique through him. Just when hehad completed the construction of the new Anatomical Institute inBonn he died suddenly from a perforating ulcer of the duodenum. Die Uhr stand still, der Zeiger fiel, es war vollbracht. ( 101 ) CLAUDE BERNARD. 1813-1877. BERNARD was born in the district of St. Julien (Rhone), andMarey in that of Beaune. Bernards earlier days were spentin Lyons, where he was assistant to a pharmacist. At first hethought of the drama, and, indeed, wrote a vaudeville, La Rose duRhone, and, later, Arthur de Bretagne (published 1886). He wentto Paris and began to study medicine, helping to keep himselfby giving private tuition. After passing his examination he became interne or House Physician to Magendie at the Hotel-Dieu, and in
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1841 Preparateur to Magendie in the College de France. At thattime Johannes Miiller was the leader of physiological thought inGermany, E. H. Weber was making many experiments by applyingthe laws of physics to physiological phenomena, Henle, Remak, andothers were dealing with microscopical problems, Schwann hadpublished his cell theory and his discoveries in gastric digestion,Magendie his work on physical phenomena, Tiedemann and G-melintheir work on absorption. All these works had a more or lesscc ( 102 ) physical trend. Marshall Hall was following up the work ofCh. Bell on reflexes. Wm. Bowman published his paper onstriped muscle in 1840 and his work on the kidney in 1842. Butthat great quartette—Helmholtz, Ludwig, I)u Bois-Keymond, andE. Brucke—had not begun their life-work. In his thesis for the M.D., On the Gastric Juice and its role indigestion, we find the germ of one of his great discoveries. He foundthat cane sugar injected into the blood-vessels is excreted in theurine, b

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