Instrument transfer as knowledge transfer in neurophysiology: François Magendie's (1783-1855) early attempts to measure cerebrospinal fluid pressure.

2007

Francois Magendie's (1783-1855) experimental model for measuring blood pressure in animals, which he developed in 1838, had a major impact on French physiology in the nineteenth century, especially upon Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) in Paris. In due course it was also adopted by other European investigators, such as the Leipzig physiologist Carl Ludwig (1816-1895), and by clinicians who developed it into a major measuring tool. Historians of science, however, have paid hardly any attention to Magendie's further laboratory investigations conducted with the assistance of Jean-Louis Marie Poiseuille's (1799-1869) sphygmometre (blood pressure meter). After having used the apparatus to conduct…

„Die Photographie als Hülfsmittel mikroskopischer Forschung”? Joseph von Gerlach (1820-1896) und die frühen anatomischen Mikrophotographen

2005

The Erlangen anatomist Joseph von Gerlach was one of the first medical researchers who used microphotography for their scientific aims in basic tissue research. Already in 1863, Gerlach published a famous handbook on the methodology of the microphotographic technique, entitled Die Photographie als Hulfsmittel mikroskopischer Forschung. Here, he discussed the technological, practical and epistemological standards and constraints of the newly introduced visualisation technique of scientific photography. The efforts and setbacks of Gerlachs' innovative approaches shall be characterised in the present paper. Furthermore, some of the most important arguments put forward by some of his peers are …

Experimentelle Physiologie in Deutschland (Schwerpunkt 19. Jahrhundert). Stand der Forschung, historiographische Leitfragen und methodische Ansätze

2005

Bericht uber das 7. Fortbildungsseminar des Fachverbands Medizingeschichte e.V. vom 31. Oktober bis 2. November 2003 am Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin

A Review of: “Jürgen Peiffer.Hirnforschung in Deutschland 1849 bis 1974. Briefe zur Entwicklung von Psychiatrie und Neurowissenschaften sowie zum Ein…

2006