VALENTIN, Gabriel Gustav (1810 – 1883)
1810 – 1883
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
1835
#602
De phaenomeno generali et fundamentali motus vibratorii contini in membranis.
Classical paper on ciliary epithelial motion. Reprinted in Purkynĕ’s Opera omnia (No. 82), pp. 277-371, 1918. English translation in Dublin J. med. chem. Sci., 1835, 7, 279-84.
1841
#5267.1
Ueber ein Entozoon im Blute von Salmo fario.
Valentin was the first to discover a trypanosome; this was in a salmon. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1863
#14165
Der Gebrauch des Spektroskopes zu physiologischen und ärztlichen Zwecken.
The first monograph on medical spectroscopy. After Hoppe-Seyler published the first paper on the application of spectroscopy to blood chemistry in 1862 (No. 870), Valentin decided to publish his own contributions to t…