Über den Einfluss des Halsmarkes auf den Blutstrom. Offprint
Publisher Information: 1864.
Ludwig, Carl (1816-95) and Ludwig Thiry (1817-97). Über den Einfluss des Halsmarkes auf den Blutstrom. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaft 49 (1864). 34pp. Plate. 246 x 158 mm. Original plain front wrapper, back wrapper lacking, traces of removal from bound volume present. Minor foxing but very good. Ownership signature on front wrapper.
First Edition, Offprint Issue. Ludwig and Thiry’s paper “revealed Ludwig’s recognition that the brain and spinal cord had a direct influence on the blood pressure. Many experiments in animals after section of the spinal cord convinced Ludwig to continue this work, and by 1871 he had located the vasomotor center in the medulla” (M. Brazier, A History of Neurophysiology in the 19th Century, p. 103).
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