HALL, Marshall (1790 – 1857)
1790 – 1857
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1830 CE
#11605
Researches principally relative to the morbid and curative effects of loss of blood.
Hall's experiments on the physiological effects of therapeutic bleeding provided compelling evidence that bleeding could cause significant harm and even death. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1831 CE
#768.1
A critical and experimental essay on the circulation of the blood.
Marshall Hall clearly distinguished arterioles and venules from capillaries, and he described arteriovenous shunts.
1833 CE
#1359
On the reflex function of the medulla oblongata and medulla spinalis.
“Hall showed that reflex activity could be distinguished from other types of movement, that it produced what today we call ‘muscle tone,’ that it included sneezing coughing, and vomiting, and that it…
1851 CE
#4812
Synopsis of cerebral and spinal seizures of inorganic origin and of paroxysmal form as a class; and of their pathology as involved in the structures and actions of the neck.
Hall was the first to suggest that the paroxysmal nervous discharges in epilepsy were produced by the spinal nervous system, first to notice the connection of anemia with epilepsy, and first to deduce that epilepsy wa…
1856 CE
#2028.56
On a new mode of effecting artificial respiration.
Marshall Hall’s method of artificial respiration.