Identifier: someapostlesofph00stir (find matches)
Title: Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stirling, William, 1851-1932
Subjects: Physiology Physiologists Physiology
Publisher: London : Priv. print. by Waterlow and sons limited
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ATHANASIUS KIRCHER. with Magnetismus. He soon left Wiirzburg, and ultimately, throughthe influence of Cardinal Berberini, he was for some years teacher of A A ( 94 ) mathematics in the Collegium Romanian in Rome. In his later years he greatly added to the collection that still bears his name, MuseumKirchcrianum, in Rome. Classical scholar, Egyptologist, astrologist,
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KIECHERS EXPERIMENTDM MIHABILE, FROM THE ORIGINAL FIGURE. mathematician, &c, his name remains also associated with the experi-mentum mirabile on a fowl—the early experiment on hypnotism.The portrait is taken from his remarkable work, Mundtcs Svbterranews(1665), and the experiment from his Physiol. Kircheriana (1680). Ineed only refer to the recent work on this subject by my friendProfessor M. Verworn, of Gdttingen. JOHANNES MULLER. 1801-1858. ONE of the greatest Biologists of the last or any century was bornthe son of a shoemaker at Coblenz, one year before Sharpey,and just one after the death of Bichat. His early academicdays were spent at Bonn (1819), where the study of theology, as isnot unfrequently the case, led him to medicine. As showing hisphysiological bias his first essay—which gained a prize—Respirationof the Foetus, was published in 18:23. Midler went to Berlin topass his examination, and, while there, came under the influenceof Rudolphi. Midler himself says of R

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