Portrait of Johann Christian Reil, who emphasized irritability as a specific property of living material, and advanced the concept of the living force as a chemical factor in function. He founded the first periodical for physiology.
Photograph of the Oxford School of Physiology. Included are Sir Charles Sherrington, Sir Gowland Hopkins, Prof. H. M. Vernon, E. A. Woods, Eustace H. Chiver, “George,” Wilder Penfield, Emile Hohman, Miss Collier, C. F. Krige, Prof. Scott, and W....