Identifier: someapostlesofph00stir (find matches)
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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t that the two are so inter-mingled that many physiological processes pass from one to other; also that,psychologically, there are a number of reactions that lie intermediate between hisextreme types, unconscious reflex and willed action. This narrowness of view wasthe more notable, because Grainger (1837) distinctly contended that the peripheralnerve led to both kinds of channels. But, altogether, I could not see any realdifference between his (Marshall Halls) view of movements of headless animals, &c, andthose of many of his predecessors, Hales, Whytt, Prochaska, and even Descartes.Eckhard gives an interesting judgment of Hall in this regard (Beitrdge, IX., 54, 1881). JOHN DALTON. 1766-1844. THE Memoirs of the Life and Scientific Researches of JointDaltou were issued by one whose name is written largein the scientific and medical history of Manchester—byWm. Charles Henry, M.D., F.K.S. (Cavendish Society, 18.34). Ihave thought it right to include Dalton amongst the Apostles for
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JOHN DALTON. ( 87 ) many reasons, not the least of these being that Manchester was thefirst town in the provinces to found a thoroughly organized and fullyequipped Medical School (1825)—then called the Pine Street Schoolof Medicine—the school founded by the late Mr. Thomas Turner(1793-1873), in which Dalton taught Pharmaceutical Chemistry(1825). J. E. PURKINJE. 1787-1869. HE began life as a teacher, but, before doing so, took Orders.The writings of Fichte influenced him much, and he decidedto follow medicine. He studied medicine in Prague from1813, and in 1819 he became Prosector. His earliest work wasentitled Beitrdge z. Kenntniss der Sehen in subjective)- Hinsicht(Prag 1819). The work, dealing with subjective ocular phenomena,brought him the acquaintance, friendship, and support of Goethe,the result being that he obtained the Chair of Physiology andPathology in Breslau, a Prussian University, in 1823, where helaboured for six-and-twenty years—founding what was, perhaps,the fir

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