Diana E Manuel, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: May 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002458
1749–1820 Moravian -born physician who worked in the universities of Prague and Vienna on anatomy and physiology. Through his work on reflex action he became the posthumous ‘victim’ of a charge of plagiarism against Marshall Hall.
Keywords: reflex action; vis nervosa; sensorium commune; Marshall Hall; Robert Whytt; epigenesis
| Further Reading | |
| book Prochaska G (1780–1784) Adnotationum Academicarum, 3 vols. Prague: Apud Wolfgangum Gerle. | |
| book Prochaska G (1800) Operum Minorum Anatomici Physiologici et Pathologici Argumenti, 2 vols. Vienna: Prostat Apud Wappler et Beck. | |
| book Prochaska G (1851) A Dissertation on the Functions of the Nervous System.(Commentatio de Functionibus Systematis Nervosi), Laycock T (transl.). London: Sydenham Society. | |
| book Canguilhem G (1955) La Formation du Concept de Réflexe aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. | |
| book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Manuel DE (1996) Marshall Hall (1790–1857): Science and Medicine in Early Victorian Society. The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi BV. | |
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