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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... THE GLASGOW MEDICAL JOURNAL. No. V. November, 1895. ORIGINAL ARTICLES. LUDWIG AND PHYSIOLOGY.1 By JOHN G. M'KENDRICK, Professor of Physiology. We have met to-day to begin a course of lectures on physiology, the science treating of the phenomena happening in living beings. With the view of affording my students some conception of the nature and scope of the course, I have, on several occasions, given a sketch of the life and labours of a distinguished physiologist. This method of introducing the subject imparts to it the interest that we always associate with a great living personality, while it takes us away for a time from technical details and from the matter-of-fact statements of a text-book. On the present occasion I have chosen, as the subject of an address, a distinguished German physiologist, Carl Ludwig, who died in April last, and whose name will be inseparably associated with the progress of physiology during the greater part of the present century. This distinguished man, whose portrait is now before us, was not only an investigator of the first class, but he was a great teacher, in the sense of being an inspirer of men, and his pupils are to be found amongst the leading physiologists of the present day. He and his pupils have touched so many 1 An Opening Address to the Class of Physiology in the University of Glasgow. No. 5. X Vol. XLIV. questions in their physiological investigations as to make it certain that, if we try to follow in their footsteps, we shall obtain something like an adequate idea of what physiology is, and of what are its aims and problems. Ludwig was born in 1816 in Witzenhausen. He received his university training at Marburg, in Hesse, and afterwards in Erlangen, and he graduated at Marburg in 1839, at the age of 22. His c...