RT Journal
A1 OPITZ R
T1 JOhannes evangeliste purkinje.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD April 15
VO XXXII
IS 15
SP 812
OP 814
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.92450420020001e
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450420020001e
AB From the turret of a magnificent building belonging to the Medical School of the University of Breslau, the "black and white" of Prussia, fluttering in the breeze, announces to the world that a new home has been completed for the alma mater of all physiologic institutions. The old "Universitas Vratislaviæ" looks back with pride upon its history from the summit of its high place among the institutions for higher education. Breslau ought to be especially proud of the part which it has played in the advance of physiologic science. As early as 1811, there existed at its University a chair of physiology—certainly the first in Germany; In 1839, while Purkinje was professor, the first physiologic laboratory was founded, and the work accomplised in this scene of his early labors, will always hold a high place in the history of physiologic research.In the early years of this century physiology had