Scottish #anatomist who was one of the earliest and most acute observers of #cell-life.
Scottish #anatomist who was one of the earliest and most acute observers of #cell-life.
In his early medical career, he identified the independent origins of deciduous and permanent #teeth.
Goodsir recognized the importance of #cell division as the basis of growth and observed the cell is divided into a number of departments.
His discoveries anticipated by a number of years the work of Rudolph Virchow.
In 1842, he showed that #stomach upsets with vomiting were caused by bacteria, treated it accordingly, and thus, before Louis Pasteur, was the first to successfully recognise and #treat a #bacterial #infection.
Goodsir taught anatomy, #physiology and #pathology, while maintaining his #research at the dissecting-table.
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