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H. P. Bowditch
(4 Apr 1840 - 13 Mar 1911)
American physiologist who established the first teaching laboratory of physiology in U.S. (1871).
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Science Quotes by H. P. Bowditch (1)
An induction shock results in a contraction or fails to do so according to its strength; if it does so at all, it produces in the muscle at that time the maximal contraction that can result from stimuli of any strength.
— H. P. Bowditch
Über die Eigentümlichkeiten der Reizbarkeit welche die Muskelfasern des Herzen zeigen', Ber. süchs. Akad. Wiss., Math.-nat Klasse, 1871, 23, 652-689. Trans. Edwin Clarke and C. D. O'Malley, The Human Brain and Spinal Cord (1968), 218.
