Augustus Volney Waller

Augustus Volney Waller ( born December 21, 1816 in Elverton Farm in Faversham, Kent, † September 18, 1870 in Geneva ) was an English neurophysiologist. His son Augustus Desiré Waller (1856-1922) was also a physiologist.

Waller studied medicine in Paris. He has worked in Bonn, before he moved to the laboratory of Marie Jean Pierre Flourens 1856. From 1858 to 1868 he was Professor of Physiology at Queen 's College, Birmingham.

In 1850 he first described the Wallerian degeneration.

Waller was a member ( "Fellow" ) elected in 1851 to the Royal Society, in 1860, the Royal Medal awarded him.

Works

• Microscopical examination of some of the principal tissues of the animal frame as Observed in the tongue of the living frog. Philosophical Magazine, 1846, 29: 271 ( Abridged German translation of E. Wallach in Archives for the History of Medicine, 1929, 22: 105-113, 344-351 ).
• Microscopic Observations on the Perforation of the Capillaries by the Corpuscles of the Blood and on the origin of mucus and pus globules. Philosophical Magazine, November, 1846, 29: 397-405.
• Microscopic investigations of hail. Philosophical Magazine, July and August 1846, March 1847.
• On the compression of the carotids - its effects upon headache, epilepsy, hysteria etc. Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, London, 1848, 1: 626-634.
• Experiments on the section of the glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves of the frog, and observations of the alterations produced thereby in the structure of Their primitive fibers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1850; 140: 423-429.
• Nouvelle méthode pour l' étude du système nerveux, applicable à l' investigation de la distribution anatomique the cordons nerveux, et au diagnostique des maladies du système nerveux, pendant la vie et après la mort. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires of séances de l' Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1851, 33: 606-611.
• Recherches sur le système nerveux. Première partie. Action de la partie du nerf cervical grand sympathique et d'une portion de la moëlle épinière sur la dilatation de la pupil. Zus with J. L. Budge. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires of séances de l' Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1851, 33: 370-374.
• Observations sur les effets de la section of the spinal racines et du nerf pneumogastrique au dessus de son ganglion inférieur chez les mammifères. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires of séances de l' Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1852, 34: 582-587.
• Nouvelles recherches sur la regeneration of fibers nerveuses. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires of séances de l' Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1852, 34: 675-679.
• Recherches sur la structure et les EXPERIMENTALES fonctions of ganglions. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires of séances de l' Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1852, 34: 524-527.
• Nouvelle méthode pour l' anatomique Investigation du Système nerveux. Bonn, 1852.
• Septième mémoire sur le système nerveux. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires of séances de l' Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1852, 35: 301-306.
• Huitième mémoire sur la système nerveux. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires of séances de l' Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1852, 35: 561-564.
• Sur l' influence du grand sympathique sur la circulation. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires of séances de l' Académie des Sciences, 1853, 36: 378-382.
• Account of experiments on the vagus and spinal accessory nerves. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1856, 8: 69-72.
• The Nutrition and repair of nerve. London, Read, 1861.
• On the Results of the Method Introduced by the Author of Investigating the Nervous System. More Especially as Applied to the Elucidation of the Function of the pneumogastric and Sympathetic Nerves. Croonian lecture. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1869-1870; 18: 339-343.
• On the effects of compression of the vagus nerve in the cure or the relief of various nervous affections. The Practitioner, London, 1870, 4: 193-206.
• On the compression of the vagus nerve Considered as a Means of Producing asthenia or anesthesia in surgical operations. The Practitioner, London, 1870, 5: 321-326.