Ludwig Julius Budge

Ludwig Julius Budge ( born September 11, 1811 in Wetzlar, † July 14, 1888 in Greifswald ) was a German physician.

He was from 1836 to 1842 a general practitioner in old churches. During this time he was already working with scientific experiments and publications. 1842 Habilitation budgeting as a lecturer at the University of Bonn.

In 1847 he became associate professor in 1855 and full professor in Bonn. Since 1851 he was a member of the Leopoldina. In 1856 he accepted an appointment as professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Greifswald. At the same time he was director of the anatomical, physiological, and the zootomischen Institute.

He has been in the professional world first came to prominence through his award-winning work on the movement of the iris from the year 1855. He discovered at the same time with other researchers, the Inhibationswirkung of the vagus nerve on the heart's action, even if he interpreted his results wrong. As an anatomist, he noted in 1859 that the growth of the transversely positioned muscles not only the thickness but also the number of individual fibers increases. In the same year he came to the scientific knowledge that the liver is crisscrossed by a network of fine capillaries, which open into the bile passages.

Works

• The doctrine of vomiting. After experience and tests; Bonn 1840, facsimile, Saarbrücken, 2007.
• Studies on the nervous system; Frankfurt am Main 1841-1842, Jäger'sche Book Paper and Maps act.
• General Pathology as an empirical science based on physiology; Bonn 1845.
• Memoranda of speciellen Human Physiology, Second improved and enlarged edition; Weimar 1850.
• New studies of the nervous system; Weimar 1851.
• Of the movement of the iris; Braunschweig 1855.
• Agreed human physiology: a guide, Weimar, 1857 ( 7th ed presumably ).
• Compendium of human physiology; Leipzig 1864.