Pavlov made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion. Especially notable was his method of producing gastric and pancreatic fistulae for the purpose of his experiments. The second published edition was a German translation by A. Walther, Wiesbaden, J.F. Bergmann, 1898. The work was translated into English in 1902, with a second edition appearing in 1910. A translation of Pavlov’s description of the stomach pouch devised by him is in J. F. Fulton’s Selected readings in the history of physiology, 2nd ed., 1966, pp. 192-93. Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology in 1904. See also No. 1445.

Besides his important work on digestion, Pavlov is remembered for his investigations upon conditioned reflexes. He is one of the greatest physiologists of all time. An English translation of another work by Pavlov, entitled Conditioned reflexes appeared in 1927. See No. 1022.