Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1955

EDUARD FRIEDRICH WILHELM PFLUEGER (1829-1910) Untersuchungen über die Physiologie des Electrotonus. A. Hirschwald 1859 xv, 500 pp., 5 plates (1 fold.). 21.9 cm.

Pflüger studied under Johannes Müller (see No. 1631) and later succeeded Helmholtz as professor of physiology at Bonn, a post he held the remainder of his life. In 1868 he founded and directed the publication of the Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie (better known as Pflüger's Archiv), one of the most respected scientific journals in the world. This work on the physiology of nerves marks one of Pflüger's earliest investigations. Here he "first stated the laws governing the make and break stimulation of nerve with the galvanic current" (Garrison-Morton 621).

See Related Record(s): 1631

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 621