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energies he not only established the general law, but 

 carried out a great number of separate investigations, to 

 eliminate objections, and to refute false indications and 

 evasions. That which hitherto had been imagined from 

 the data of every-day experience, and which had been 

 sought to be expressed in a vague manner, in which the 

 true was mixed up with the false ; or which had just 

 been established for individual branches, such as by Dr. 

 Young for the theory of colours, or by Sir Charles Bell 

 for the motor nerves, that emerged from Miiller's hands 

 in a state of classical perfection a scientific achieve- 

 ment whose value I am inclined to consider as equal to 

 that of the discovery of the law of gravitation. 



His scientific tendency, and more especially his ex- 

 ample, were continued in his pupils. We had been 

 preceded by Schwann, Henle, Reichert, Peters, Remak ; 

 I met as fellow-students E. Du Bois-Reymond, Virchow, 

 Briicke, Ludwig, Traube, J. Meyer, Lieberkiihn, Hall- 

 mann ; we were succeeded by A. von Grraefe, W. Busch, 

 Max Schultze, A. Schneider. 



Microscopic and pathological anatomy, the study of 

 organic types, physiology, experimental pathology and 

 therapeutics, ophthalmology, developed themselves in 

 Germany under the influence of this powerful impulse 

 far beyond the standard of rival adjacent countries. 

 This was helped by the labours of those of similar 

 tendencies among Miiller's contemporaries, among whom 



