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HIS, Wilhelm Sr. (1831 – 1904)

HIS, Wilhelm Sr. (1831 – 1904)

1831 – 1904

14 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Nicola Perscheid · [1] [2] [3] · Public domain

1861 CE

#1107

Untersuchungen über den Bau der Lymphdrüsen.

Histology of the lymphatics. His drew the illustrations.

1863 CE

#1109

Ueber das Epithel der Lymphgefässwurzeln und über die von Recklinghausen’schen Saftcanälchen.

1864 CE

#203.1

Crania Helvetica: Sammlung schweizerischer Schädelformen.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1865 CE

#489

Beobachtungen über den Bau des Säugethier-Eierstockes.

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1865 CE

#490

Die Häute und Höhlen des Körpers.

A new classification of tissues based on histogenesis.

1870 CE

#268

Beschreibung eines Mikrotoms.

His was, more than any other person, responsible for the introduction of the microtome, although Ranvier and other French people had earlier employed microtomes of simpler types.

1874 CE

#494

Unsere Körperform und das physiologische Problem ihrer Entstehung.

In this work His compared the various layers and organs of the embryo to a series of elastic tubes and plates. He thought that the local inequalities of growth and the differences in the consistency of the tissues mig…

1880 CE–1885 CE

#501

Anatomie menschlicher Embryonen. 3 pts. and atlas.

A systematic account of early human embryology that stimulated further investigation in a field in which His stood highest among his contemporaries. He was the first to study the human embryo as a whole.

1887 CE

#1368.1

Zur Geschichte der menschlichen Rückenmarkes und der Nervenwurzeln.

This is generally considered the first clear statement that nerve cells in the brain might be independent units rather than forming an anastomotic network—as Gerlach, Golgi, and most others believed—althou…

1889 CE

#7335

Die Neuroblasten und deren Entstehung im embryonalen Mark.

In this paper on neuroblasts (young neurons) and their development in the embryonic spinal cord, His coined the term, “dendrite,” for what had been called protoplasmic processes since the term was introduc…

1893 CE

#836

Die Thätigkeit des embryonalen Herzens und deren Bedeutung für die Lehre von der Herzbewegung beim Erwachsenen.

His described the atrioventricular bundle which was later named after him. English translation in F. A. Willius and T. E. Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, p. 695.

1895 CE

#7408

Anatomische Forschungen über Johann Sebastian Bach's Gebeine und Anlitz nebst Bemerkungen über dessen Bilder. Abh. Sächs. Ges. Wiss., 22/5.

To authenticate the remains of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm His senior performed one of the earliest examples of scientific facial reconstructions, reconstructing the soft tissues onto a plaster cast of the skull us…

1895 CE

#432

Die anatomische Nomenclatur.

His was largely responsible for the Basle Nomina Anatomica, the first attempt to produce a standard anatomical nomenclature. English translation by L.F. Barker, 1907.

1904 CE

#7339

Die Entwickelung des menschlichen Gehirns, während der ersten Monate.

"This final summary of brain development, published in the year of his death, contains a wealth of classic illustrations that have been adapted ever since in textbooks" (Larry W. Swanson).