Ludwig and modern physiology / by J. Burdon Sanderson.

  • Burdon-Sanderson, J. (John), Sir, 1828-1905.
Date:
1896
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    io arranged not as a Museum, but much more like a physical and chemical Laboratory, provided with all that was needed for the application of exact methods of research to the investigation of the processes of Life. The idea which he had ever in view, and which he carried into effect during the last thirty years of his life with signal success, was to unite his life-work as an investigator with the highest kind of teaching. Even at Marburg and at Zurich he had begun to form a School; for already men nearly of his own age had rallied round him. Attracted in the first instance by his early discoveries, they were held by the force of his character, and became permanently associated with him in his work as his loyal friends and followers—in the highest sense his scholars. If, therefore, we speak of Ludwig as one of the greatest teachers of Science the world has seen, we have in mind his relation to the men who ranged themselves under his leadership in the building up of the Science of Physiology, without reference to his function as an ordinary academical teacher. Of this relation we can best judge by the careful perusal of the numerous biographical memoirs which have appeared since his death, more particularly those of Professor His'' (Leipzig), of Professor Kronecker' (Bern), who was for many years his coadjutor in the Institute, of Professor v. Fick'^ (Wurzburg), of Professor v, Kries' (Freiburg), of Professor Mosso (Turin), of Professor Fano° (Florence), of Professor Tigerstedt (Upsala), of Professor Stirlingf in England. With the exception of Fick, whose relations with Ludwig were of an earlier date, and of his colleague in the Chair of Anatomy, all of these distinguished teachers were at one time workers in the Leipzig Institute. All h His. Karl Ludwig und Karl Thiersch. Akademischt Geddchtnissrede, Leipzig, 1891;. ' Kronecker. Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig. Berliner klin., Wochensch, 1895, no. 21. I* A. Fick. Karl Ludwig. Nachtuf. Biographische Blatter, Berlin, vol. i., pt. 3. I V. Kries. Carl Ludwig. Freiburg, i. B., 1895. Mosso. Karl Ludwig. Die AhUion, Berlin, nos. 38, 39. Fano. Per Carlo Ludwig Commemorazione. Clinica Moderna, Florence, i., no. 7. » Tigerstedt. Karl Ludwig. Denhede. Biographische Blatter, BexMn, vol. i., pt. 3. P Stirling : loc. cit.