Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2130

IVAN PETROVICH PAVLOV (1849-1936) Lektsii o rabote bolshikh polusharii golovnogo mozga [Russian title transliterated]. Academy Nauk, USSR 1949 [4th ed.]. 474 pp., 4 plates, tables. 21.8 cm.

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Pavlov as a youth studied for the priesthood to follow in his father's footsteps but later decided that his interests lay in the sciences. He left seminary and studied at the University of St. Petersburg where he received his degree, having specialized in animal physiology. Pavlov continued his studies at the Medical-Surgical Academy and completed their medical curriculum in 1879. He studied in Germany with the noted physiologists Carl Ludwig (1816-1895) and Rudolf Peter Heinrich Heidenhain (1834-1897) for two years and returned to St. Petersburg where he eventually became director of the Institute for Experimental Medicine. After his classic work on the digestive system which won him the Nobel prize in 1904, Pavlov planned his epoch-making experiments on salivary and gastric secretion by means of a gastric fistula. These experiments and other investigations on higher nervous activity over the next thirty-five years have had a profound impact on physiology as well as psychology. One of the key results of his work was the postulation and verification of the conditioned reflex which is reported in the present monograph. First published in 1926, it was quickly translated into English as well as several other European languages.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.