Education
He studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg, Berlin and Würzburg, and following graduation worked as a general practitioner in Wetzlar and Altenkirchen.
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Ludwig Budge
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Career
In 1843 he was privat-docent to the medical faculty at Bonn, where he became an associate professor in 1847. In 1856 he was appointed professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Greifswald. He is known for his anatomical and physiological investigations of the autonomic nervous system, discovering that sympathetic nerve stimulation brings about pupillary dilatation and that oculomotor nerve stimulus produces constriction.
The eponymous "Budge"s center" is a synonym for the ciliospinal center.
With Leonard Landois, he demonstrated the phenomena of cardiac arrest during electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve. Also, he is credited with providing a comprehensive description of the liver"s bile capillaries, and conducted significant research involving the construction and growth of muscle associated with bile ducts.
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Membership
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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Nationality
Germany