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He was requested by the Inspector-General of Medical Affairs 

 to write, along with his successor, Dr. Bauduin, a handbook of 

 Physiology (1853). I do not know the work in its original Dutch 

 dress, but the German translation, by ¥r. W. Theile, of the first 

 volume of Special Physiology is one to which I have often had 

 occasion to refer. It is a perfect mine of facts, and gives the great 

 historical landmarks of the subjects with which it deals — circulation, 

 and the blood, digestion, absorption, secretion, respiration, excretion. 

 There are few works that bear the stamp of thoroughness so markedly 

 as those of Donders. 



In 1862, on the death .of Schroeder van der Kolk, he became 

 Professor of Physiology, with the promise that a new Physiological 

 Institute would be built for him. This meant a great deal to 

 Donders. Snellen became his colleague at the hospital and Th. W. 

 Engelmann his assistant in the University. Engelmann later became 

 his son-in-law and successor. Engelmann is Professor of Physi- 

 ology in Berlin, having succeeded Du Bois-Reymond. Donders' 

 work on the rapidity of cerebral processes is part and parcel of 

 modern physiology, and so is that on vagus stimulation, on vowel 

 sounds, and on respiration as a dissociation process. He was, in 

 fact, one of the most notable men in Holland, introducing safe- 



MORITZ SCHIFP. 



