JAMES BLUNDELL (1790–1878) EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGIST AND OBSTETRICIAN

James Keill of Northampton, physician, anatomist and physiologist.

JAMES KEILL (1673-1719), author ofthe most popular English anatomical compendium of the close of the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth centuries, also enjoyed renown in the latter century as one of Britain's leadingiatromathematical physiologists. A biographical account of Keill appeared in the Biographia Britannica,1 and Haller,2 Portal,3 Diderot,4 and Mangetus5 considered his work ...

Dr. Samuel James Meltzer: physiologist of the Rockefeller Institute.

The James Blundell Award Lecture 2007: do we really understand immune red cell destruction?

We have learned a great deal about immune red blood cell (RBC) destruction since the elaboration of biochemical/immunological interactions of antibodies, complement and macrophages during the past 50 years. We first learned about the direct lysis of RBCs involving complement. We then learned of the role of the macrophage (particularly in the spleen and the liver) in initiating phagocytosis and ...

Galen (AD 129-200) of Pergamun: anatomist and experimental physiologist.

Galen was a brilliant anatomist and pioneer of experimental physiology. His many important discoveries exerted a profound influence on medicine during the next 1400 years. However, his wish to solve all the problems of health and disease led him to speculate and draw mistaken conclusions which were widely believed until after the Renaissance.

Henry Pickering Bowditch, Physiologist.

The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Societies and Meetings: American Physiological Society: The Notre Dame Symposium on the Physics of the Henry Pickering Bowditch-Physiologist: PROUniverse and the Nature of Primordial Particles 487 FESSOR WALTER B. CANNON .....................471 Special Articles: Silas 'Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914: PROFEsoR A. J Immunization against Equine Encephalom...