An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

PFLÜGER, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm

6 entries
  • 621

Untersuchungen über die Physiologie des Electrotonus.

Berlin: A. Hirschwald, 1859.

One of the most interesting works of its time on the physiology of nerve. In it Pflüger first stated the laws governing the make and break stimulation of nerve with the galvanic current. Pflüger was a pupil of Müller and du Bois-Reymond.



Subjects: NEUROSCIENCE › Neurophysiology, PHYSIOLOGY › Electrophysiology
  • 939

Zur Gasometrie des Blutes.

Zbl. med. Wiss., 4, 305-8, 1866.

Pflüger showed that respiratory changes take place in the tissues.



Subjects: RESPIRATION › Respiratory Physiology
  • 940

Ueber die Ursache der Athembewegungen, sowie der Dyspnoë und Apnoë.

Pflüg. Arch. ges. Physiol., 1, 61-106, 1868.

Pflüger investigated the cause of the initiation of respiration in newborn animals. English translation in No. 1588.16.



Subjects: RESPIRATION
  • 627

Ueber die Diffusion des Sauerstoffs, den Ort und die Gesetze der Oxydationsprocesse im thierischen Organismus.

Pflüg. Arch. ges. Physiol., 6, 43-64, 190, 1872.


Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY › Metabolism
  • 633

Ueber Wärme und Oxydation der lebendigen Materie.

Pflüg. Arch. ges. Physiol., 18, 247-380, 1878.


Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY › Metabolism
  • 503

Untersuchungen über Bastardirung der anuren Batrachier und die Principien der Zeugung.

Pflüg. Arch. ges. Physiol., 32, 519-41, 1883.

Pflüger was one of the earliest workers in the field of experimental embryology. Above, his first work on the subject, deals with the cross fertilization of different species of frog.



Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY