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460 IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
industrious author. Among the nov
living anatomists at this university may
be named M. V. Odenius (born 1828),
whose works in the normal histology
embrace the nerve-endings of the organ
of hearing and the hairs; Hj. O.
Lindgren (born 1837), author of works on
the structure of the uterus and the
ovum, C. M. Fürst (born 1854), who
has published works on the structure
of the spermatozoa, as well as in other
departments of anatomy and histology.
Swedish Physiology, earlier united,
as is the case everywhere, with
anatomy, gained its first independent
representative in Fr. Holmgren (1831/
97) at Uppsala, noted most through
his works on vital electrical
phenomena, and on colour-blindness.
Holmgren fitted up the first Swedish
physiological laboratory at Uppsala and yet
another, a magnificent one, in the same
town, erected by legacy of the låte
Swedish physician and patron of arts
and sciences A. F. Regnett (1807/84),
who resided in Brazil. Holmgren,
moreover, together with R. Tigerstedt (see below), founded the journal
»Scandi-navisches Archiv für Physiologie», printed at Leipzig. Holmgren’s successor, Hj.
Ohrwall (born 1851) is noted for his work concerning the organ of taste. T.
Thunberg (born 1873) has studied the physiology of the cutaneous sensibility. —The
first professor of physiology at the Caroline Institute was Chr. Lovén (born 1835).
He has essentially contributed to the discovery of the vaso-motor nerves, has thrown
light upon the nature of muscular contraction, etc., and arranged the physiological
laboratory at this Institute. Subsequently the Finländer R. Tigerstedt (born 1853)
was here active for a period of twenty years as a scientist, lecturer and writer
on the general physiology of muscles and nerves as well as on the physiology of
circulation and nutrition. J. E. Johansson (born 1862) has among other things
made studies on the relationship of nutrition to muscular action in the human
organism. C. G. Santesson (born 1862) has contributed works dealing with
muscular mechanics. E. Landergren (born 1867) and E. O. Hultgren (born
1866) have made experiments on the assimilation of food. In Lund has been
working, since 1885, M. G. Blix (born 1849), noted principally through his
discovery that cold, heat, pressure, etc., are perceived by different sets of nerves, as
also through his works on muscle mechanics and the development of muscular heat.
The University of Lund has a newly established physiological laboratory.
Hedical Chemistry. The most illustrious of its names is J. J. Bertelius
(1779/1848); to this are attached the foUowing: — in Uppsala, O.
Hammarsten (born 1841), distinguished through his discovery of the active substance of
rennet in the gastric juice of the human body, and through significant works on
the albuminous, blood- and digestion chemistry, etc., and also through his Manual
of Physiological Chemistry, which has been translated into several foreign languages;
further, A. T. Almén (1833/1903), and C. T. Mörner (born 1864), have been
developing biological and pharmaceutical chemistry; — in Stockholm, K. G.
Mosander (1797/1858), prominent mineral chemist and pharmacist; N. P. Ham-
Oustaf Retzius.
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