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OTT, Isaac (1847 – 1916)

OTT, Isaac (1847 – 1916)

1847 – 1916

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Unknown author Unknown author · “Portrait of Isaac Ott (1847-1916),” circa 1910. Williams Haynes Portrait Collection, Box 11. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. digital.sciencehistory.org . · Public domain

1878 CE

#11696

The action of medicines.

Ott founded experimental pharmacology in America; his book was the first written by an American on the action of medicines.

1884 CE

#1415

The relation of the nervous system to the temperature of the body.

Ott studied the nervous regulation of body temperature. His papers on the heat-center in the brain and on the thermoinhibitory apparatus were published in the same journal, 1887, 14, 150-62, 428-38; 1888, 15, 85-104.