“In the year 1878 I made a series of experiments on the results of section of the vagus in birds, occasioned by the title of the Prize Essay of the Medical Faculty of Königsberg,—According to Blainville and Billroth section of the nervi vagi in birds has no influence on the condition of the lungs. It is to be experimentally proved why birds die after this operation.… As my experiments in many points contradict those of Eichhorst, I will here shortly give the results of over eighty experiments on birds principally pigeons. My completed work, which was awarded the prize by the Medical Faculty on the 18th of Jan., will shortly appear.”—Centralbl. f. d. Med. Wiss., 1879, p. 99.
Zuntz, Nathan. Prof. of Anim. Physiol. Univ., Berlin; form. Prof. at Bonn; Direct. of the Agricul. Acad., Poppelsdorf.
Author of “Beiträge zur Physiologie des Blutes,” Bonn, 1868; “Innervation der Athmung,” Biol. Centralbl., Vol. II., No. 6 (1882); “Ueber die Bedeutung der Amidsubstanzen für die thierische Ernährung,” Arch. f. Physiol. (1882); “Zur Theorie des Fiebers;” Centralbl. f. d. Med. Wiss., No. 32, 1882, p. 561.
Made experiments with curare on rabbits.—“Ueber den Einfluss der Curarevergiftung auf den thierischen Stoffwechsel,” Pflüger’s Archiv, Vol. XII., p. 522.
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Sinéty, Louis de, 10, Rue de la Chaise, Paris. M.D., 1873. Formerly Prof. Gen. Anat. Med. Fac.
Author of “De l’État du Foie chez les femelles en lactation” (Thèse), Paris, 1873; “Traité pratique de Gynécologie,” Paris, 1879; second edition, 1884.
“On female guinea-pigs, which have only a single pair of mammæ, we have made the ablation of these glands during lactation.”—“Manuel Pratique de Gynécologie,” Paris, 1879, p. 778.
“I wish to communicate to the Society the results that I have obtained by the ablation of the mammæ in animals. Dogs and rabbits with their six or eight mammæ were unable to survive these experiments. I chose in preference guinea-pigs, which have, as is known, only two mammæ, and in which the disposition of the ducts renders the operation easy, I might almost say harmless, even during the period of lactation; for out of six females operated on in the month of September not one died, and all of them are still to-day subject to observation.”—Report of the Meeting of the Soc. de Biologie, December 20, 1873, “Gaz. Méd. de Paris,” 1874, p. 36.