Quotes:Sechenov, Ivan Mikhailovich

Zirkoff, Boris

Syechenov, Ivan Mihailovich (1829-1905). Outstanding Russian physiologist. Had a brief military career, but resigned, 1850, and became M.D., 1856, at Moscow University. Studied in Berlin and Heidelberg under men like Du Bois-Reymond and Ludwig. Prof, of physiology in Moscow Medical Academy and later at St. Petersburg and Moscow Universities. Author of a very large number of important scientific papers and works which established his reputation, among them: *The Reflex Actions of the Brain, 1863 and 1866.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 666