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Overton’s career was extraordinary in a number of ways. He took his PhD at Zürich in botany in 1889 and continued there as a lecturer in biology and assistant in botany until, in 1901, he moved to the Physiology Department at Würzburg. It was there, in 1907, that he accepted a Chair in Pharmacology at the University of Lund. How was it that he started out as a botanist and ended up as a pharmacologist — one whose work is still quoted in the three separate fields of physiology, pharmacology and toxicology?
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Overton, E. (1899) Über die allgemeinen osmotischen Eigenschaften der Zelle ihre vermutlichen Ursachen und ihre Bedeutung für die Physiologie. Vierteljahrsschr. Naturforsch. Ges. Zürich, 44, 88–135. Quoted in English from ‘On the general osmotic properties of the cell, their probable origin and their significance for physiology’, in Cell Membrane Permeability and Transport (ed. G.R. Kepner ), Dowdon, Hutchinson and Ross Inc., Stroudsburg, PA, pp. 29–56.
For a review of this and other work mentioned see Kepner, G.R. (1983) From oil layer to bilayer in Liposome Letters (ed. A.D. Bangham), Academic Press, London, pp. 15–27 and references cited therein.
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Miller, K.W. (1991). Introduction. In: Lipnick, R.L. (eds) Studies of Narcosis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3096-7_1
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