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Newman, later knighted, was demonstrator in bacteriology at King's College, London.
Oliver was Professor of Bacteriology at Long Island College Hospital.
Orth was Professor of General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy and Director of the Pathological Institute at Göttingen.
An important book in the development of American bacteriology and public health. Park was a pioneer American bacteriologist who contributed much to the development of public health in the USA. His 1899 textbook on bacteriology was "one of the most influential texts on Pathogenic Microorganisms" [Clark, Pioneer Microbiologists of America, p. 164]. For a brief biography see Clark, pp. 160-165. Guerard, who assisted in the writing of this first edition, was assistant bacteriologist in the Department of Health, New York City. The eleventh and final edition appeared in 1939, just before Clark's death.
Influenced by Locke and Condillac, Pinel co-ordinated observation and experiment in his nosological system. "As a nosologist, Pinel wanted to take advantage of the progress made in his own days by the natural sciences, physics, chemistry, and botany … In brief, he wanted medicine to become a branch of natural history. [Thus] it was he, the the alienist, who anticipated the major role we ascribe today to the basic sciences in our curriculum and training." [Riese, The Legacy of Philippe Pinel. NY: 1969]."A new advance [in nosology], however, began to take place, especially in France, at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, and this was possible through the important additions to knowledge from a deep study of pathological anatomy. A pioneer in this advance was Philippe Pinel (1755-1826) in his Nosograpie philosophique (1802). His classification of inflammations (phlegmasiae) was particularly important. He recognized five orders of phlegmasiae according as they affected 1) the skin, 2) the mucous membranes, 3) the serous membranes, 4) the cellular tissue and parenchymatous organs; 5) the muscular, fibrous, or synovial tissue" [Bulloch's History of Bacteriology, pp. 155-156; also see p. 390].
An important survey of the knowledge of the time concerning the cerebrospinal fluid. All three authors made significant contributions: Plaut assisted Wasserman in developing the first blood test for diagnosing syphilis, while Rehm and Schottmüller each have a paper cited in GM (#2836 & #5325).
Pribram was Professor of Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine at Loyola University, Chicago.
A classic book that helped initiate the ongoing boom in neuroscience research and that set forth the program for much of the subsequent research. Contains sections on molecular biology; molecular biology of brain cells; neuronal physiology; brain correlates of functional behavioral states; and brain correlates of learning.
An important and widely influential book with sections on molecular biology; molecular biology of brain cells; neuronal physiology; brain correlates of functional behavioral states; and brain correlates of learning.
Quekett's 1848 book on microscopy was "the first major work on object preparation in any language" [Bracegirdle, p. 32]. Quekett's lectures on histology are to modern eyes "a curious blend of plant and animal histology, omitting many of the now usual tissues. They were, however, based on his splendid series of preparations, some of which are still to be seen in the Hunerian Museum. This collection was probably the most extensive in the wold by the 1850s; Kölliker stated that it ranked with the Hyrtl collection of injections in Vienna, with the collection of injections and some sections in Utrecht, and with the London collection of Tomes (teeth) and Carpenter (hard tissues of the lower animals). In fact, this was probably an understatement of its importance, in spite of the fact that the interest and industry of one individual alone was responsible for its creation" [Bracegirdle, A History of Microtechnique, pp. 313-315]. Quekett was by 1854 Resident Conservator [in 1852 just Assistant Conservator] of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and Professor of Histology.
"Raspail held a prominent place in the development of science in the nineteenth century. In organic chemistry he specified the properties of numerous substances . . . [and he] belonged to a group of biologists who prepared the way for the cell theory. Although it would be too strong to call him the creator of the modern concept of the cell, the definitions and descriptions he gave of the cell are truly remarkable. On the basis of precise observations he described the general characteristics of the plant cell long before Mohl . . . . As an expert microscopist, Raspail not only set forth theoretical considerations of great importance but also made many significant observations. . . . Scientists now agree that he was one of the founders of cytochemistry. As he himself put it, he brought chemical analysis under the microscope. . . . [Raspail] constructed a system of general pathology, which he set forth in his voluminous work on general health and illness . . . [in which] he provided valuable new data on the causes of various diseases. For example, he determined the agent of scabies, the itch mite . . . Raspail is therefore rightly considered one of the founders of parasitology" [DSB XI: 300-01].
Rettger was Professor and Cheplin Sessel Fellow in Bacteriology at Yale University.
The first volume of a series of reports with this title funded by the Enviromental Protection Agency. Contains chapters on chemical contaminants; microbiology; solid particles in suspension; inorganic solutes; organic solutes; radioactivity.
One of the pioneers of modern bacteriology, Salomonsen studied under Panum, published the first important bacteriological work on the blood in Denmark, and devised new methods for isolating and culturing bacteria. See Bulloch's History of Bacteriology, pp. 394-95.
Satterthwaite was Professor of Pathology and General Medicine in the New York Post Graduae Medical School and Hospital.
A collection of essays first published in the Quarterly Review. Includes chapters on overfishing in the North Sea; zebras, horses, and hybrids; Pasteur; malaria; flies as carriers of infectious disease; etc.
Spencer's response to Weismann's Romanes Lecture, given at Oxford in December 1893, regarded by Spencer as an attempt to refute his own arguments in favor of the inheritance of acquired characteristics—arguments Spencer had been making since at least the middle-1850s, even before the publication of Darwin's Origin of the Species in 1859, and which had perhaps been stated most forcefully in his Principles of Biology (1864-1867), in which he had coined the phrase "survival of the fittest," and in his 1887 Factors of Organic Evolution.
- In a number of remarkable works published in the early 1890s August Weismann (1834-1914) had provided experimental evidence against the inheritance of acquired characteristics and in favor of of the union of two parent germ cells as the vehicle for natural selection. Spencer would have none of this. Here Spencer gave his final rebuttal in the ongoing debate with Weismann and Romanes over the sufficiency of natural selection via inheritance through specialized reproductive cells as an explanation for evolution. This debate had been carried out in the pages of The Contemporary Review. As Robert Richards observed in his magisterial Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior (pp. 291-294), Spencer's objections to natural selection as the sole mechanism for the evolution of the complex systems of coadaptations found in men and animals "lodged an objection in the throat of natural selection that at times during the latter part of the century threatened to choke it off as a major force in evolution" (p. 292, and see the list of Contemporary Review papers in footnote 161 on p. 293). Richards goes on to write "Some historians, knowing how the evolution story ends, have thought Spencer's arguments 'fallacious' and have declared Weismann the winner. A less hindsightful reading does not leave that impression" (pp. 293-94).
- The one-page postcript added to this offprinted version is of particular interest, as it directly prefigures the possibility of stem cell research: "These evidences, furnished by independent observers, unite in showing, firstly, that all the multiplying cells of the developing embryo are alike; and, secondly, that the soma-cells of the adult severally retain, in a latent form, all the powers of the original embryo-cell."
A standard period textbook, of which the fifth and final edition in English appeared in 1903, translated from the 10th German edition. An amazingly long-lived textbook, the 30th German edition of which, edited by Wilhelm v. Möllendorff, appeared in 1969. Schaper was professor of anatomy, University of Breslau; Bilstein had formerly been director of the laboratories of histology & embryology, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Strong's second publication after his 1909 thesis, before he turned to applied psychology, where he was the prime shaper of the field of vocational psychology.
Topley was a notable Cambridge bacteriologist whose 1929 textbook The Principles of Bacteriology and Immunity (co-authored with G. S. Wilson) was widely used for several decades.
One of the longest-lived textbooks of the 20th century, the last incarnation of which was in six volumes in 1998 as Topley and Wilson's Microbiology and Microbial Infections, edited by Leslie Collier & others.
Vaughan was Professor of Hygiene and Physiological Chemistry in the University of Michigan. Along with Frederick Novy he pioneered the introduction of bacteriology in the midwest. See Clarke, pp. 237-45; Bulloch p. 401.
GM 712 (1888 first edition). Vaughan was Professor and Novy Assistant Professor of Hygiene and Physiological Chemistry at the University of Michigan, where together they pioneered the introduction of bacteriology in the Midwest. See Bulloch p. 401, and especially Clarke's Pioneer Microbiologists of America, pp. 237-45.
GM 712 (1888 first edition).
All published in the series.
"Eminent Austrian bacteriologist and morbid anatomist. . . . In 1893 became ordinary Prof. of Pathological Anatomy at Vienna. Weichselbaum early took up Koch's methods and made many additions to bacteriology of the greatest importance. Discovered Meningococcus in 1887, and enriched our knowledge of pneumonia, tuberculosis, and other subjects" [Bulloch's History of Bacteriology, pp. 402-403].
Weinberg did important work on the organisms producing gas gangrene, greatly contributing to knowledge of pathogenic and nonpathogenic anaerobes. Weinberg identified Bacterium Welchii (the predominant organism of gas gangrene) as one of the first true extra-cellular toxins. See GM 2520 & 2521 for his 1915 & 1916 papers on the subject. His principal work on the subject was his 1918 book La gangrène gazeuse: bactériologie, reproduction expérimentale, sérothérapie.
GM 86.2 Created as a festschrift for Welch's 70th birthday. Includes all six of Welch's Garrison-Morton papers (2308, 2508, 2516, 3011, 5061, 5621), a 53 page bibliography of his publications, and Simon Flexner's 24 page biographical introduction.
Pioneer American woman bacteriologist, "now widely recognized for her contributions to the understanding of infectious diseases, diphtheria immunization, and rabies diagnosis and control. Her work saved countles lives" [Shearer & Shearer Notable Women in the Life Sciences, p. 391].
Wood was pathologist to St. Luke's Hospital, New York. Contains sections on blood; examination of gastric contents; faeces; parasites; oral & nasal secretions; sputum; urine; transudates & exudates; milk.
"English pathologist and bacteriologist. Born in Huddersfield. Graduated in Edinburgh, 1877, where he excelled as an athlete. Became assistant Prof. of Pathology in Edinburgh, and (1890) Director of the Laboratories of the Conjoint Board of the Royal college of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons, London. In 1899 he became Prof. off Pathology in the Univ. of Cambridge. Woodhead wrote many reports on bacteriology, especially in relation to public health, and he also published several text-books which had a wide vogue in England. he founded and edited the Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology He was knighted for military services in the Great War" [Bulloch's A History of Bacteriology, p. 404].
Entirely devoted to the microscopic anatomy of the human brain with sections on the metencephalon (Nachhirn), hindbrain (Hinterhirn), the pons (Brücke), and the cerebellum (Kleinhirn). The first volume, published 1899-1903, was largely devoted to macroscopic anatomy. The two volumes were originally issued in a six Lieferungen from 1899 to 1934 (we've never had it in original parts).The completion of Ziehen's encyclopedic survey of brain anatomy, published over 35 years. Ziehen and the co-workers in his various laboratories produced much work of fundamental importance. Ziehen himself, who received his MD from the University of Berlin in 1885, is a complex and hard-to-pigeonhole figure. He may be the only writer of his time who made noteworthy contributions to neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, pedagogy, and philosophy. He was at Jena from 1900-1903; Utrecht 1903-4; Halle 1904-12; and Berlin 1917-1930. The University of Berlin awarded him an honorary PhD in 1910.
Without the II. Teil with the continuation of Mikroskopische Anatomie des Gehirns. Issued in a total of six Lieferungen from 1899 to 1934, one rarely sees all the parts together (we've never had a complete set).An encyclopedic neuranatomic reference work. Ziehen and the co-workers in his laboratory produced much work of fundamental importance.
A classic textbook, see GM 2568 for the 1914 first edition.
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