1648 BULWER, John (1606 – 1656)
Philocophus: or the deafe and dumbe mans friend.
"Bulmer promoted what we would call today 'central nervous system plasticity,' in describing how one sense could take over the duties of another. This is well illustrated in the frontispiece of this work, which is the…
GMN 7230 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9399
1660 –1662 SCHNEIDER, Conrad Viktor (1614 – 1680)
Liber primus [-liber quintus et ultimus] de catarrhis. 6 vols.
Schneider put an end to the idea that nasal mucus originated in the pituitary. He demonstrated anatomically and clinically that the mucous membrane lining the nose (“Schneider’s membrane”) is the source of nasal disch…
GMN 3245 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3876
1789 SCARPA, Antonio (1752 – 1832)
Anatomicae disquisitiones de auditu et olfactu.
Scarpa made important researches concerning the auditory and olfactory apparatus of fishes, birds, reptiles, and man. See L. Sellers and B. Anson, [Scarpa’s] Anatomical observations on the round window, Arch. Otolaryn…
GMN 1453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2342
1809 SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas von (1755 – 1830)
Abbildungen der menschlichen Organe des Geruches.
GMN 1454 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2348
1821 CLOQUET, Jules Hippolyte (1787 – 1840)
Osphrésiologie, ou traité des odeurs, du sens et des organes de l’olfaction. 2me. éd.
An exhaustive work which discusses olfaction, diseases of the nose, membranous occlusion of the nostrils, deviations of the septum, rhinoplasty, coryza, vasomotor rhinitis, rhinorrhoea, etc. The first edition was enti…
GMN 3253 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3919
1991 AXEL, Richard (1946 – ); BUCK, Linda Brown (1947 – )
A novel multigene family may encode odorant receptors: A molecular basis for odor recognition.
"In their landmark paper published in 1991, Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein coupled receptors. By analyzing rat DNA, they estimated that there were approxi…
GMN 13930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16224
2014 REINARZ, Jonathan
Past scents: Historical perspectives on smell.
GMN 13692 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15974
