WALLER, Augustus Volney (1816 – 1870)
1816 – 1870
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1846 CE
#2295
Microscopic examination of some of the principal tissues of the animal frame, as observed in the tongue of the living frog, toad, etc.
Waller observed the penetration and migration of leucocytes through the endothelial vessel walls.
1850 CE
#1266
Experiments on the section of the glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves of the frog, and observations of the alterations produced thereby in the structure of their primitive fibres.
The “law of Wallerian degeneration”. The experiments recorded in the above paper were the starting-point of the neuron theory. Waller showed that if glosso-pharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves are severed, th…
1851 CE
#1267