In 1876, William Osler became Professor of Institutes of Medicine (physiology, histology, pathology) at 91ºÚÁÏÍø. He soon developed a dedicated and fully equipped physiology laboratory. He believed in teaching physiology by experimenting, for example by having students use electro-physiological apparatus to observe action potentials in muscles and nerves.Â
Osler was Chair of the 91ºÚÁÏÍø Physiology Department from 1875 to 1884.
For more information, see the list of Chairs of the 91ºÚÁÏÍø Department of PhysiologyÂ
Departmental Chairs 1872 to the present
From the  : [Vol. 9, no. 4; (Nov. 1880) p 198] Osler provides a list of equipment ordered for the new physiology lab established in the Medical Building, which opened on campus in 1872.Â
- Eleven microscopes (Hartnack), with usual microscopical accessories, camera, polariscope, &c.
- Microtomes (Rutherford’s, Seiler’s and Schiefferdecker’s)
- Warm stage, simple, of Stricker)
- Warm stage, compound (Sanderson and Stricker)
- Mesentery stage
- Frog plate, for circulation in web of foot
- Hæemacytometer (Gower’s)
- Hemochrometer (Gower’s)
- Hemochrometer (Quincke)
- Haematimeter (Hoppe Seyler)
- Spectroscope (Rhorbeck)
- Spectroscope, simple, (Browning)
- Cyon’s set of instruments, for use in physiological experiments
- Czermak’s rabbit holder
- Bernard’s head-holder
- Foster’s muscle apparatus
- Gastric canula
- Ludwig’s artificial respiration apparatus
- Ludwig’s apparatus for experiments on the cord. Sécateur of Moreau
- Zuleitungsgefäss of DuBois-Reymond
- Ludwig’ s clamp for arteries
- Arterial and tracheal canulae
- Ludwig’s kynograph, with manometer and and electro-manetic time and stimulation marker
- Stromühr (Ludwig)
- Sphygmograph (Gower’s)
- Ludwig’s apparatus for prevention of formation of blood-clots in canulæ
- Kronecker apparatus for experinents on the frog’s heart
- Electrical batteries
- Electrodes of various sorts
- Rheochord
- Induction apparatus
- Key (of Du Bois)
- Whippe (of Pohl)
- Wiedmann’s spiegelbussole
- Rhorbeck’s chemical balance