Biomedical mementos: Ernst von Brücke, founder of Austrian physiology

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Lazaros C. Triarhou
Department of Psychology, Division of Brain, Behavior and Cognition, Aristotelian University Faculty of Philosophy, Thessalonica, Greece
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6544-5738

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Experimental physiology, Second Vienna School, Berlin Physical Society, ciliary muscle, dynamic psychiatry

Abstract

This vignette commemorates the pioneer Austrian physiologist Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke in conjunction with a special plaquette commissioned at the 8th triennial International Congress of Physiologists which was held in Vienna in 1910.

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Biomedical mementos: Ernst von Brücke, founder of Austrian physiology. Med Histor [Internet]. 2024 May 23 [cited 2024 Jun. 30];8(1):e2024012. Available from: https://mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/MedHistor/article/view/15787
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Lazaros C. Triarhou, Department of Psychology, Division of Brain, Behavior and Cognition, Aristotelian University Faculty of Philosophy, Thessalonica, Greece

Professor of Basic Neuroscience

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Biomedical mementos: Ernst von Brücke, founder of Austrian physiology. Med Histor [Internet]. 2024 May 23 [cited 2024 Jun. 30];8(1):e2024012. Available from: https://mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/MedHistor/article/view/15787