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A physiological demonstration with vivisection of a dog. Oil painting by Emile-Edouard Mouchy, 1832.

Charles Sherrington (left), Leon Fredericq (seated) and Paul Grützner (right) outside the Institute of Physiology in Liège. Copy photograph (1940?) after the 1898 original.

XIth International Physiological Congress, Edinburgh, 1923: delegates. Photograph by Debenham, 1923.

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 / by William Stirling.

M0012781: Portrait of John Hemmeter (1863-1931)

M0009193: Portrait of Paul Bert (1833-1886)

Attributing excellence in medicine : the history of the Nobel Prize / edited by Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling, Heiner Fangerau.

Ivan Mikhaĭlovich Sechenov : K 150-leti︠︡iu so d︠n︡ia rozhdeni︠︡ia [Sb. stateĭ] / Akademi︠︡ia nauk SSSR, Institut istorii estestvoznani︠︡ia i tekhniki ; Pod red. P.G. Ko︠st︡iuka [and others].

Felice Fontana, life and work / Peter K. Knoefel.

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M0012781: Portrait of John Hemmeter (1863-1931)

M0009193: Portrait of Paul Bert (1833-1886)

Attributing excellence in medicine : the history of the Nobel Prize / edited by Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling, Heiner Fangerau.

Ivan Mikhaĭlovich Sechenov : K 150-leti︠︡iu so d︠n︡ia rozhdeni︠︡ia [Sb. stateĭ] / Akademi︠︡ia nauk SSSR, Institut istorii estestvoznani︠︡ia i tekhniki ; Pod red. P.G. Ko︠st︡iuka [and others].

Felice Fontana, life and work / Peter K. Knoefel.