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 (1902) (14761518096)

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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years later (1853), simultaneously with Bernard and Brown-Sequard,he discovered the vaso-constrictor action of the cervical sympathetic.Three years later, anticipating by ten years the main principleestablished by V. Gudden, he published his discovery of the trophicinfluence of the retina upon the optic nerve fibres.—A. D. W. Through the kindness of my friend A. D. Waller, M.D., F.R.S.,I am able to reproduce two historical figures, the one of diapedesis,and the other a pencil drawing by Mrs. A. Waller showing thestructural changes following section of the anterior nerve root. a,posterior root fibres with ganglion globules c; b, anterior root dis-organized ; d, mixed nerve consisting of normal sensitive fibres anddisorganized motor fibres. There are many omitted chapters. The reason is obvious. Ihad hoped to be able to write on the relations of ComparativeAnatomy to Medicine, of Evolution, and of the Origin of Species, asthe turning point in the history of Biology. I was unable, for
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SIR EICHAKD OWEN. reasons I need not mention, to obtain a portrait of Charles Darwin,but, thanks to Messrs. Mayall & Co., I have obtained one of SirRICHARD OWEN, who was born at Lancaster (1804-1880). Therei i ( 126 ) is no need to speak of his work, it speaks for itself. He formed aninteresting link with Cuvier, and through Clift with John Hunter, andstands out as one of the greatest comparative anatomists of his time. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. 1825-1895. HUXLEY was born at Ealing in 1825 and died at Eastbourne in1895, by which event Medicine lost one of its mostillustrious members and Science one of her most distinguished,vigorous, and eloquent champions. Two quotations will .suffice, onefrom his friend Sir Joseph Fayrer, and the other from HuxleysAutobiography.