1826 MÜLLER, Johannes Peter (1801 – 1858)

Ueber die phantastischen Gesichtserscheinungen.

Müller’s early studies on specific nerve energies are included in the above work. Later he stated, in his Handbuch der Physiologie, Coblenz, 1840, 2, 258, his law of specific nerve energies – each nerve of special sen…

GMN 1456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2355

1834 WEBER, Ernst Heinrich (1795 – 1878)

De pulsu, resorptione, auditu et tactu. Annotationes anatomicae et physiologicae.

Includes Weber’s law on the relationship between stimulus and sensation. English translation of De tactu, New York Academic Press, 1978. Weber's hearing test is on p.41.

GMN 1457 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2367

1846 WEBER, Ernst Heinrich (1795 – 1878)

Der Tastsinn und das Gemeingefühl. In: Wagner’s Handwörterbuch der Physiologie, Braunschweig, 3, Abt. 2, 481-588.

English translation of Tastsinn, Academic Press, 1978.

GMN 1459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2379

1858 WUNDT, Wilhelm Maximilian (1832 – 1920)

Beiträge zur Theorie der Sinneswahrnehmung.

Sensory perception. Wundt was one of the founders of experimental psychology.

GMN 1463 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2398

1859 FECHNER, Gustav Theodor (1801 – 1887)

Ueber ein wichtiges psychophysisches Grundgesetz und dessen Beziehung zur Schätzung der Sterngrössen.

Fechner–Weber law on stimulus and sensation. See also Nos. 1457 & 4972.

GMN 1464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2401

1885 GOLDSCHEIDER, Johannes Karl August Eugen Alfred (1858 – 1935)

Neue Thatsachen über die Hautsinnesnerven.

Goldscheider recorded important investigations on the nerves conveying the sensation of temperature and on the nerves of cutaneous sensation

GMN 1470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2431

1892 FERRY, Ervin Sidney (1868 – 1956)

Persistence of vision.

Ferry modified Weber’s law on the relationship between stimulus and sensation. Following the work of Porter, Proc. roy. Soc. (Lond.), 1898, 63, 347; 1902, 70, 313, the term “Ferry–Porter Law” came into being.

GMN 1473 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2440

1895 ZWAARDEMAKER, Hendrik (1857 – 1930)

Die Physiologie des Geruchs.

For his studies on olfaction and olfactometry Zwaardemaker developed the so-called “camera inodorata” (odorless chamber), or olfactometer. His instrument to check the patency of the nasal passages is still in use.

GMN 1474 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2443

1897 FREY, Maximilian (Max) Ruppert Franz von (1852 – 1932)

Untersuchungen über die Sinnesfunctionen der menschlichen Haut. I. Druckempfindung und Schmerz.

In his investigations on cutaneous sensibility Frey introduced his method of testing the sensitiveness of pressure points by means of bristles mounted in a handle.

GMN 1475 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2448

1927 PARSONS, Sir John Herbert (1868 – 1957)

An introduction to the theory of perception.

GMN 1529 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2855

1970 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); SIEGEL, Rudolf E. (1900 – 1975)

Galen on sense perception: His doctrines, observations and experiments on vision, hearing, smell, touch and pain, and their historical sources.

GMN 9128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11307