Moritz Schiff

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Moritz Schiff (January 28, 1823, Frankfurt am Main – October 6, 1896, Geneva) was a German physiologist.

While working in Bern, he showed that removing the thyroid gland from dogs was fatal, and later showed that animal thyroid extract could prevent the death. Subsequently he successfully used thyroid extract to treat humans.

He made other major contributions to human physiology, including studies of the circulatory system and the action of the vagus nerve.

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• Short biography and bibliography in the Virtual Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science