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SHARPEY-SCHAFER, Sir Edward Albert (1850 – 1935)

SHARPEY-SCHAFER, Sir Edward Albert (1850 – 1935)

1850 – 1935

4 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1889 CE

#1419

A record of experiments upon the functions of the cerebral cortex.

A detailed analysis, by means of faradic stimulation, of the motor responses of the cerebral cortex, internal capsule, and spinal cord of higher primates.

1895 CE

#1143

The physiological effects of extracts of the suprarenal capsules.

These workers demonstrated the existence of a pressor substance (adrenaline) in the adrenal medulla. Preliminary communications regarding the above appeared in the proceedings of the Physiological Society, J. Physiol.…

1898 CE–1900 CE

#649

Text-book of physiology. Edited by Edward Schäfer. 2 vols.

A collective work and a classic textbook of physiology, edited by Schäfer using the original version of his last name. He was a pupil of Sharpey, and when that great man died without any known descendants Sch&aum…

1904 CE

#2028.59

Description of a simple and efficient method of performing artificial respiration on the human subject especially in cases of drowning. To which is appended instruction for the treatment of the apparently drowned.