Papers of Henry Pickering Bowditch, 1868-1909 (bulk).

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Papers of Henry Pickering Bowditch, 1868-1909 (bulk).

Contains letters, medical notebooks, reports and notes from the Harvard Committee of the Academic Council, and lecture notes.

1 box and 9 v.

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Harvard University. Committee of the Academic Council.

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Bowditch, H. P. (Henry Pickering), 1840-1911

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Bowditch (Harvard, A.B. 1861; M.D. 1868) studied physiology in Leipzig with Carl Ludwig, whose laboratory was the center for physiological study. He returned to Boston in 1871 and taught physiology at the Harvard Medical School; was appointed as first George Higginson Professor of Physiology; and with the establishment of the first physiological laboratory, brought German technological methods to the U.S. He helped in planning the Harvard Medical School and was active in public affairs, includin...