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PFLÜGER, pflụ'gẽr, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm (1829—). A German physiologist, born at Hanau. He studied at Marburg and Berlin, and in 1859 became director of the Physiological Institute and professor in the University of Bonn, Pflüger made special studies on the nervous systems of lower animals; founded in 1868 the Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie; and wrote Sensorische Funktionen des Rückenmarks der Wirbeltiere (1853), Physiologie des Elektrotonus (1859), Untersuchungen aus dem physiologischen Laboratorium zu Bonn (1865), and Ueber die Kunst der Verlängerung des Lebens (1890).