Albert von Bezold

Albert von Bezold (January 7, 1836 - March 2, 1868) was a German physiologist who was born in Ansbach. He studied at Munich, Würzburg and Berlin, where he was an assistant to Emil Du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896). Later he was a professor of physiology at Jena (1859) and Würzburg (1865).

Bezold performed important research involving the physiology of the muscles, nerves and cardiovascular system. He is also remembered for studying the physiological effects of pharmacological substances such as curare, atropine and veratrum on the bodys' muscles, heart, nerves and circulatory system. The eponymous Bezold-Jarisch reflex is a triad of responses (apnea, bradycardia, and hypotension) resulting from an intravenous injection of veratrum alkaloids. This medical sign is named along with pharmacologist Adolf Jarisch Jr. (1891-1965), who in 1937 re-confirmed Bezold's earlier experiments.


 * Associated eponym:
 * Bezold's ganglion: an aggregation of ganglion cells in the interatrial septum.