John Call Dalton

For other people named John Dalton, see John Dalton (disambiguation).

John Call Dalton (February 2, 1825 – February 12, 1889) was an American physiologist, the first full-time professor for physiology in the United States.

Dalton was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Works

• A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene : for Schools, Families, and Colleges. – New York : London : Harper & Bros. ; Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1869
• A treatise on human physiology : designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine. – Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1861
• The Experimental Method of Medicine – Philadelphia, 1882
• Doctrines of the circulation : a history of physiological opinion and discovery, in regard to the circulation of the blood. – Philadelphia : Henry C. Lea’s Son & Co., 1884
• Topographical anatomy of the brain. – Philadelphia, Lea brothers & Co., 1885

Speech

• Vivisecion; what it is, and what it has accomplished. - Read before New York Academy of Medicine. Dec 13, 1866

Script : University of Michigan, University Library

Autobiography

• John Call Dalton, M.D., U.S.V.. – [Cambridge: Riverside Press], 1892 ( regarding his brief service in the 7th New York Infantry , National Guard)

References

• S. Weir Mitchell: Memoir of John Call Dalton, 1825–1889. In: National Academy of Sciences : Biographical Memoirs. – Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1985, Band III, S. 177-185.

External links

• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir