Memoirs of Frederick Warren Ellis, ca.1947.

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Memoirs of Frederick Warren Ellis, ca.1947.

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Contains typescript of memoirs of Ellis concerning the early history of academic physiology, Harvard's Department of Physiology, and H. P. Bowditch.

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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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...

Harvard Medical School. Dept. of Physiology.

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Ellis, Frederick Warren, 1857-1948.

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Ellis (Harvard, M.D. 1881) did postgraduate study at the Harvard Medical School in physiology with Henry P. Bowditch. After 1886 he was an ophthalmologist in Springfield and Monson, Mass. He conducted ophthalmological experiments; and his research focused on the physiology and psychology of visual sensations and perceptions. Ellis' inventions included the prism-stroboscope. At his death, he was the last original member of the American Physiological Society. From the description of Me...