Physiology or Medicine

Banquet speech

Daniel Bovet’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 (in French) Maestà, Signori Accademici, Eccellenze, Signore e Signori, E’ per me ragione di gioia profonda trovarmi nouvamente in Svezia, questo grande paese legato per tanti motivi all’Italia e con cui io stcsso ho così profondi vincoli di amicizia e, oggi, di riconoscenza.…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1957 The Relationships between Isosterism and Competitive Phenomena in the Field of Drug Therapy of the Autonomic Nervous System and that of the Neuromuscular Transmission Pdf 373 kB

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Banquet speech

André F. Cournand’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1956 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The two laureates with whom I share the greatest honor in the field of medicine and physiology, have chosen me to express their feelings of gratitude in my own words. But if…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1956 The Role of Heart Catheterization and Angiocardiography in the Development of Modern Medicine The ancient world and the Middle Ages had no idea of the existence of the circulation of the blood. It was not until the Late Renaissance that efforts were made to grasp this process anatomically and understand…

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