An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

SCHWANN, Theodor

7 entries
  • 481

De necessitate aëris atmosphaerici ad evolutionem pulli in ovo incubito. Dissertatio inauguralis physiologica....

Berlin: Typis Nietackianis, 1834.

Proof that air is necessary in the development of the embryo. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.



Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY
  • 990

Versuche über die künstliche Verdauung des geronnenen Eiweisses.

Arch. Anat. Physiol. wiss. Med., 66-89, 1836.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.



Subjects: GASTROENTEROLOGY › Anatomy & Physiology of Digestion
  • 991

Ueber das Wesen des Verdauungsprocesses.

Arch. Anat. Physiol. wiss. Med., 90-138, 1836.

William Beaumont recognized that the gastric juice contained some other active chemical substance besides hydrochloric acid. Schwann proved this to be pepsin. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.



Subjects: GASTROENTEROLOGY › Anatomy & Physiology of Digestion
  • 674

Vorlaüfige Mittheilung betreffend Versuche über die Weingährung und Fäulniss.

Ann. Phys. Chem. (Leipzig), 41, 184-93, 1837.

Proof that putrefaction is produced by living bodies. Independently of Cagniard-Latour, Schwann discovered the yeast cell. He is regarded as the founder of the germ theory of putrefaction and fermentation.



Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY, Zymology (Zymurgy) (Fermentation)
  • 112.1

Ueber die Analogie in der Structur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen.

Neue Not. Geb. Nat. Heil., Jan. 33-36; Feb. 225-29; April 21-23., 1838.

Schwann’s three-part preliminary application of Schleiden’s “watch-glass” cell theory to the genesis of animal cells. Schleiden communicated the theory to him verbally. This paper actually pre-dates Schleiden’s first publication (No. 112) but Schwann gives Schleiden full credit for the Uhrglastheorie. English translation with commentary in L.J. Rather, P. Rather, and J.B. Frerichs, Johannes Müller and the nineteenth century origins of tumor cell theory, Canton, Mass., [1986].



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, MICROBIOLOGY
  • 113

Mikroskopische Untersuchungen über die Uebereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen.

Berlin: Sander, 1839.

Mainly devoted to the investigation of the elementary structure of animal tissues, Schwann’s Untersuchungen had an important bearing on the development of the doctrine of the cell structure of animal tissue. In this work Schwann discarded Schleiden’s Uhrglastheorie and put forward a theory of his own. In the same work he described the neurilemma, the “sheath of Schwann”. Schwann was Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Liège. English translation (Sydenham Society), 1847. See M. Florkin, Naissance et déviation de la théorie cellulaire dans l’ceuvre de Theodore Schwann. Paris, Hermann, 1960. Digital facsimile of the 1839 edition from Google Books at this link.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, MICROBIOLOGY
  • 993

Versuche um auszumitteln, ob die Galle im Organismus eine für das Leben wesentliche Rolle spielt.

Arch. Anat. Physiol. wiss. Med., 127-59, 1844.

Proof of the indispensability of bile to digestion.



Subjects: GASTROENTEROLOGY › Anatomy & Physiology of Digestion