An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

STIRLING, William

3 entries
  • 629

Ueber die summation elektrischer Hautreize.

Arb. Physiol. Anst. Leipzig, (1874), 9, 223-91, 1875.

Stirling, a pupil of Ludwig, became a great teacher of physiology. His paper on the summation of electrical stimuli to the skin was a prize thesis.



Subjects: PHYSIOLOGY › Electrophysiology
  • 707

A text-book of human physiology, including histology and microscopical anatomy....by L. Landois. Translated from the fifth German edition. With additions by William Stirling. 2 vols.

London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1886.

Second edition in English. Matthew Hay devised a test for the determination of bile acids in the urine, published in vol. 1, p. 381.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.



Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOCHEMISTRY › Clinical Chemistry
  • 1576

Some apostles of physiology.

London: Waterlow & Sons, 1902.

Well illustrated, and finely printed, but dated history, by a pupil of Ludwig. See No. 629.



Subjects: PHYSIOLOGY › History of Physiology