Moritz Schiff

Moritz Schiff (28 January 1823, Frankfurt am Main 6 October 1896, Geneva) was a German physiologist.

Moritz Schiff
Moritz Schiff, 1876

While working in Bern, he showed that removing the thyroid gland from dogs was fatal, and later showed that animal thyroid extract could prevent the death. Subsequently he successfully used thyroid extract to treat humans.

He made other major contributions to human physiology, including studies of the circulatory system and the action of the vagus nerve.

References

  • (in French) A. Loucif : "Moritz Schiff: la vie et les carnets de laboratoire d'un physiologiste du XIXème siècle". Thèse de Médecine, N° 206. Université Louis Pasteur. Strasbourg, 2003.
  • H. Friedenwald : Notes on Moritz Schiff (1823-1896). Chapter XXXVI. dans The Jews and medicine. 1944, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press.
  • W. Haymaker, Schiller F., ed. : The founders of neurology, One hundred and forty-six biographical sketches by eighty-eight authors, 1970, Springfield (Ill.)
  • (in French) Jean Starobinski : Le concept de cénesthésie et les idées neuropsychologiques de Moritz Schiff in Gesnerus, n° 34, 2-20, 1977.
  • Anonyme: Moritz Schiff (1823-1896). Experimental physiologist, JAMA. 1968 Mar. 25;203(13):1133-4.
  • J.R. Ewald: Schiff, Moritz. In : Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Band 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, S. 8–11.
  • (in French)Brève histoire de la conscience du corps, in Revue française de psychanalyse, n° 2, 1981.
  • H. Heintel: Moritz Schiffs gescheiterter Habilitationsversuch an der Universität Göttingen im Jahre 1855., Medizinhist J. 1980;15(4): 378-84.
  • (in French) Georges Canguilhem : Études d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences, 2002, Paris, Vrin, 288-293.
  • (in German) P. Riedo : Der Physiologe Moritz Schiff (1823-1896) und die Innervation des Herzens., Université de Zürich, 1971.
  • A. Reuben : The biliary cycle of Moritz Schiff, Hepatology, 2005, Volume 42, Issue 2, pages 500–505.
  • F. Vallejo-Manzur, J. Varon, R. Fromm Jr, P. Baskett : Moritz Schiff and the history of open-chest cardiac massage., Resuscitation. 2002, Apr. 53(1): 3-5.
  • (in French) J.J. Dreifuss : Moritz Schiff et la vivisection, Gesnerus. 1985 ; 42(3-4): 289-303.
  • (in French) J.J. Dreifuss : Moritz Schiff and thyroid transplantation: an aspect of the beginnings of experimental endocrinology, Rev. Med. Suisse Romande. 1984, Dec. 104(12): 957-65.
  • (in French) J.J. Dreifuss : L’arrivée de la physiologie expérimentale à Genève (1876), Rev. Med. Suisse Romande. 2008;4:2288-2291.
  • P. Guarnieri :Moritz Schiff (1823-1896). Experimental Physiology and Noble Sentiment in Florence. In : Vivisection in Historical Perspective, N. A. Rupke. London and New York : Routledge, 1987;105-24.
  • M. Feinsod : Moritz Schiff (1823–1896): A Physiologist in Exile. Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal. 2011;2;(4):e006
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