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Napoleon Cybulski
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1854–1919

Napoleon Cybulski

Cybulski co-authored an 1884 paper in Russian with Vassilie von Anrep on vaso-dilator and vaso-constrictor nerves, which Bayliss lists and discusses12. Cybulski also appears in Coenen and Zayachkivska's account as the teacher who set Adolf Beck a question about exciting a nerve along its path34.

Born
13 September 1854
Died
26 April 1919
Country
Russian Empire
Field
university teacher, politician, physician
In the library
0 works, named in 4 passages elsewhere
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18501875190019251950197520002025Bayliss, W. M., 19151Bayliss, W. M., 19152Coenen A, Zayachkivska O, 20133Coenen A, Zayachkivska O, 20134Coenen A, Zayachkivska O, 20135Coenen A, Zayachkivska O, 20136
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Vasomotor nerve work

Bayliss (1915) gives the Anrep and Cybulski paper of 1884, "On the Physiology of the Vaso-dilators and Vaso-constrictors", in Russian, and points readers to a German yearbook abstract1. In his discussion of dilator and constrictor nerves, Bayliss reports von Frey (1876) and Asher (1909) on which nerve preponderates. He then names Anrep and Cybulski2. The passage breaks off there, so the held text does not show their result.

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Teacher of Adolf Beck

Coenen and Zayachkivska say Beck became Cybulski's assistant in 18893. They credit Cybulski with suggesting that Beck study the electrical response of a nerve to sensory stimulation. The live question was whether a nerve can be excited at every point of its course4. Pflüger's avalanche theory held that excitation gathers strength as it travels5. Beck later paid tribute to Cybulski as a teacher and colleague6.

SourcesEach quotation was checked word for word against the passage it opens.
  1. On the Physiology of the Vaso-dilators and Vaso-constrictors." (In Russian.) Petrograd.Bayliss, W. M., 1915 · Principles of General Physiology · open at passage 3056
  2. By appropriate choice of the relative strength of the stimulation of the two nerves, Asher (1909) showed, however, that the effect of either dilator or constrictor nerves can be made to preponderate. Anrep and CybulskiBayliss, W. M., 1915 · Principles of General Physiology · open at passage 1787
  3. in 1889 Beck began to work as an assistant of the famous physiologist Napoleon Nikodem Cybulski (1854-1919)Coenen A, Zayachkivska O, 2013 · Adolf Beck: A pioneer in electroencephalography in between Richard Caton and… · open at passage 1
  4. This idea was suggested to him by Cybulski, since a lively debated question was whether it is possible to excite a nerve at all points of its pathway.Coenen A, Zayachkivska O, 2013 · Adolf Beck: A pioneer in electroencephalography in between Richard Caton and… · open at passage 1
  5. the German Eduard Pflüger (1859) proposed that the neural excitation gathers strength in its passage down the nerve.Coenen A, Zayachkivska O, 2013 · Adolf Beck: A pioneer in electroencephalography in between Richard Caton and… · open at passage 1
  6. Beck paid tribute to his old teacher as a scientist, a colleague, a friend of the university, and a great human being (Beck, 1919).Coenen A, Zayachkivska O, 2013 · Adolf Beck: A pioneer in electroencephalography in between Richard Caton and… · open at passage 13