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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periments of a comparative nature on the most different animals, frogs, salamanders,snakes, fish, &c. ; on the action of the gastric juice on all possible kinds of food, animaland vegetable, bone, &c. (6) Lastly he obtained a large quantity of gastric juice from acrow, on which his friend Scopoli was able to make the first chemical analysis of thisfluid. His remarkable observations on Respiration, which bridged overa great gap left by Lavoisier, are referred to in another place. In the same year as Spallanzani published his Opuscoli, a thesisfor the degree of M.D. was presented to the University ofEdinburgh by E. STEVENS, De alimentorum concoctione Diss. (Edin.1777). This is translated and appended to the Dissertation ofSpallanzani already referred to. The experiments were made at Edinburgh upon a Hussar, a man of weakunderstanding, who gained a miserable livelihood by swallowing stones for tin1amusement of the common people. He began this practice at the age of seven, and has
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