1667 –1673 BLASIUS, Gerard "Gerrit" Leendertszoon [Blaes] (162 – 1682); SWAMMERDAM, Jan (1637 – 1680); PRIVATE COLLEGE OF AMSTERDAM, (Collegium Privatum Amstelodamense)
Observationes anatomicae selectiores. [Part II: Observationum anatomicarum… pars altera]. 2 vols.
The only publications of one of the earliest scientific societies, active from 1664 to 1672. Founded by Gerard Blaes, and numbering Jan Swammerdam among its members, the college devoted itself to comparative anatomica…
GMN 292.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8835
1700 MÉRY, Jean (1645 – 1722)
Observations sur la maniere de tailler dans les deux sexes pour l'extraction de la pierre, pratiqué par Frere Jacques. Nouveau system de la circulation du sang pour le trou ovale dans le foetus humain, avec les réponses aux objections qui ont été faites contre cette hypothese.
"Méry became closely associated with the comparative-anatomical work led by Claude Perrault and J.-G. Duverney. As a member of this group, Méry made contributions to their joint publications, in which each man’s speci…
GMN 11894 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14099
1857 RAINEY, George (1801 – 1884)
On the formation of the skeletons of animals, and other hard structures formed in connexion with living tissues.
Includes description of “Rainey’s tubes” or “corpuscles” in connexion with the process of calcification of tissues.
GMN 619 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/502
1863 ECKHARD, Conrad (1822 – 1915)
Untersuchungen über die Erection des Penis beim Hunde.
Important studies of the erector mechanism.
GMN 1223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1910
1866 –1868 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
On the anatomy and physiology of the vertebrates. 3 vols.
Vol. 1. Fishes and reptiles; Vol. 2. Birds; Vol. 3. Mammals. The most important work on the subject after Cuvier, based entirely on personal observations. Owen entitled his 40th and concluding chapter "Derivative hypo…
GMN 336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/224
1877 –1880 ROMANES, George John (1848 – 1894)
Observations on the locomotor system of Medusae. 3 pts.
Charles Sherrington described the significance of Romanes' research on jellyfish in terms of its impact on cardiac physiology: "Romanes's observations carried out with simple means were novel and fundamental. The ques…
GMN 632 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/573
1913 ABEL, John Jacob (1857 – 1938)
On the action of drugs and the function of the anterior lymph hearts in cardiectomized frogs.
Abel was one of America’s most distinguished pharmacologists. See A. M. Harvey. "Pharmacology’s giant," Johns Hopk. med. J., 1974, 135, 245-58.
GMN 849 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/645
1914 ABEL, John Jacob (1857 – 1938); TURNER, Benjamin Bernard (1871 – 1945)
On the influence of the lymph hearts upon the action of convulsant drugs in cardiectomized frogs. II.
GMN 850 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/650
1917 WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)
The fundus oculi of birds especially as viewed by the ophthalmoscope. A study in comparative anatomy and physiology. Illustrated by 143 drawings... also by sixty-one colored paintings prepared for this work by Arthur W. Head.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 7116 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9283
1920 MACEWEN, Sir William (1848 – 1924)
The growth and shedding of the antlers of the deer. The histological phenomena and their relation to the growth of bone.
The first study of the unusual and dramatic physiology of the annual growth and shedding of the antlers of deer. "The amount of bony matter annually secreted to form antlers of the larger deer is enormous, antlers of …
GMN 7000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9166
1939 YOUNG, John Zachary (1907 – 1997)
Fused neurons and synaptic contacts in the giant nerve fibers of cephalopods.
Young discovered the squid giant synapse, a chemical synapse found in squid, and the largest chemical junction in nature.
GMN 7158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9325
1957 POLYAK, Stephen Lucian (1889 – 1955)
The vertebrate visual system. Edited by Heinrich Klüver.
GMN 7404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9576
