Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Collection of 18 Contemporary Laboratory Photographs ca. 1900
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Collection of 18 Contemporary Laboratory Photographs,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1900
Collection number: 19
Creator: Kupalov, Petr Stepanovich 1904-1995
Extent: 18 mounted 9 x 7" photographs
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections
Division
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: The collection of photographs, taken around the turn
of the 20th century, shows Pavlov's laboratories, coworkers, and some laboratory
procedures used in his experiments. The photographs were presented by one of
Pavlov's pupils, Professor Petr Stepanovich Kupalov, to Dr. Mary A. B. Brazier,
Professor of Anatomy, UCLA, in 1958 on the occasion of an international meeting
in Russia. Dr. Brazier presented the photos to the History and Special
Collections Division, UCLA Biomedical Library in 1985, in honor of UCLA School
of Medicine's former Dean, Sherman M. Mellinkoff, M.D.
Physical location: History and Special Collections Division,
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los
Angeles
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
Access
The photographs are available for viewing at the History and Special
Collections Division, UCLA Louise Darling Biomedical Library.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ivan Petrovich Pavlov collection of 18 contemporary laboratory photographs (Manuscript collection
19). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Acquisition Information
Prof. Petr Stepanovich Kupalov, a student of Pavlov, presented these
photographs to Dr. Mary A. B. Brazier, Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, and
Biophysics, UCLA School of Medicine, in 1958. Dr. Brazier and her UCLA
colleague, Dr. Horace Magoun, were visiting various neurophysiology laboratories
in the Soviet Union that summer and participating in two international meetings
in Leningrad and Moscow.
In 1985 Dr. Brazier gave the photographs to the UCLA Biomedical Library in
honor of the UCLA School of Medicine's former dean, Sherman Mellinkoff.
Biography
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) studied physiology and received a doctorate
in medicine from St. Peterburg University in 1883. From 1879 to 1890 he was
professor of pharmacology in St. Petersburg, then became professor of physiology
and later director of the St. Peterburg Institute for Experimental Medicine
until 1936. After early work on control of blood pressure he soon turned to
studying the physiology of digestion. The new techniques of surgery and
postoperate care he invented openend up the study of digestive processes in
normal healthy animals over long periods of time.
Pavlov's investigation of digestion in living dogs led him to propose a new
theory of behavior. Based on his observations of the reaction of dogs to the
sight of food or to the sound of a bell they associated with food, he formulated
the idea and coined the term conditioned reflex, providing a way of reducing
complex behavior to basic units that could be studied in scientific terms.
During the 1920s Pavlov and his students extended his theory of animal behavior
to human psychology. For his work in digestive physiology he was awarded the
Nobel Prize in physiology in 1904.
Scope and Content
The 18 photographs are approximately 9" x 7", mounted on 13.5" x 9.75" gray
cardboard matts. All but two of the pictures have a typed explanatory label
glued to the cardboard back, which formed the basis for captions used in an UCLA
Library exhibit shortly after receipt of the collection; these captions are also
included.
The photographs picture Prof. Pavlov and his coworkers at the St. Petersburg
Institute for Experimental Medicine ca. 1902, some of the experimental dogs in
the laboratory and outside, and Institute buildings and laboratories.
Related Material
Additional materials describing and arising from the 1958 trip to the Soviet
Union during which Dr. Brazier was presented these photographs, are included in
Dr. Brazier's papers, Manuscript Collection #42, History and Special Collections
Division, UCLA Biomedical Library.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Institut fiziologii im. I.P.
Pavlova - Photographs
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, 1849-1936 -
Photographs
Box 1, Item 1
Photo no. 1: I.P. Pavlov with a group of coworkers in the yard of the
Institute of Experimental Medicine, at the entrance to the Division of
Physiology.
Scope and Content Note
pictured are: A.E. Ganike, G.A. Smirnov, I.P. Pavlov, S.V. Parashchuk, L.F.
Piontkovskii, V.N. Boldyrev, V.P. Babkin, A.P. Sokolov, Ia.A. Bukhshtab, N.I.
Geiman, I.S. Kadygrobov, V.P. Neelov, M.A. Arbekov, P.V. Troitskii, G.B.
Berlatskii, L.A. Orbeli, I.S. Tsitovich, V.V. Savich
Note
photo was published in Pavlov's "Polnoe sobranie trudov", 1940- , v. 2,
p. 304
Box 1, Item 2
Photo no. 2: Dogs and keepers, outdoor exercise.
Box 1, Item 3
Photo no. 3: A part of the "canine gastric juice
factory".
Scope and Content Note
five dogs in the laboratory; "a number of dogs spend from six to ten thirty
A.M. daily, chewing...food in the platters before them. The esophagus has been
severed so that the food drops back into the platter and is eaten over and over
again. Meanwhile the gastric juice is collected from the gastric fistula, about
a liter a day being secured from each dog. This is filtered, serated, and
shipped to various physicians..."
Box 1, Item 4
Photo no. 4: The room where the dogs are fed after their session in
the "canine gastric juice factory".
Box 1, Item 5
Photo no. 5: Ten dogs and keepers.
Scope and Content Note
"Pavlov was extremely fond of the dogs used in his lab; they were well cared
for and lived long lives"
Box 1, Item 6
Photo no. 6: Group of experimenters in one of the
laboratories.
Scope and Content Note
"Notice the dog on the stand at the right with the receptacle attached to the
abdominal opening to collect the juice from a 'Pavlov pouch' "
Box 1, Item 7
Photo no. 7: View of the same lab looking in the opposite
direction.
Box 1, Item 8
Photo no. 8: A group in the laboratory during a break.
Scope and Content Note
"note the tea drinking and the tea kettle"
Box 1, Item 9
Photo no. 9: Another corner of the laboratory.
Scope and Content Note
"notice the tea kettle"
Box 1, Item 10
Photo no. 10: One of the experimental laboratories.
Box 1, Item 11
Photo no. 11: I.P. Pavlov in the operating room of the Institute of
Experimental Medicine.
1902
Scope and Content Note
pictured are: A.P. Sokolov, I.V. Shuvalov (laboratory assistant), I.P.
Pavlov, Ia.A. Bukhshtab
Note
photo published in Pavlov's "Polnoe sobranie trudov", 1940- , v. 2, p.
376
Box 1, Item 12
Photo no. 12: "Professor Pavlov's office".
Box 1, Item 13
Photo no. 13: Grounds of the Imperial Institute for Experimental
Medicine, St. Petersburg.
Scope and Content Note
the chemical laboratory building is shown on the left, Pavlov's physiological
laboratory building on the right
Box 1, Item 14
Photo no. 14: Exterior view of the building for the dogs.
Box 1, Item 15
Photo no. 15: Interior view of the building for the dogs.
Box 1, Item 16
Photo no. 16: Corridor of a ward where the dogs were
kept.
Scope and Content Note
"the rooms were heated, well-lighted, and ventilated"
Box 1, Item 17
Photo no. 17: The surgeons' preparation room.
Scope and Content Note
located "between the dogs' preparation room and the operating room"
Box 1, Item 18
Photo no. 18: Exterior view of Pavlov's physiological laboratory
building.
