Straub

Straub Walter (Walter Straub; born in 1874), outstanding German pharmacologist. Received university education in Munich, Strasbourg, and Tübingen. Began his work in pharmacology in 1900 in Leipzig; in 1904 was appointed extraordinary professor in Marburg, in 1905 ordinary professor in Würzburg, in 1907 in Freiburg, and in 1923 in Munich; since 1923 has been editor of 'Archiv für experimentelle Pathologie und Pharmakologie'. S. belongs to a number of outstanding research, mainly in the field of pharmacology of circulation and pharmacology of muscle poisons; S. is world-famous for the concept of 'potential' poisons (1907), as well as a special method proposed by S. for isolating the frog's heart (1911). In questions concerning the mechanism of action of cardiac glycosides, S. is one of the first authorities. From the Munich laboratory of S. came a number of works, including on avertoin anesthesia and pharmacological effects on the motor function of the intestine. In a number of works S. also approaches questions of a purely chemical nature. From the large number of S.'s students can be named: Fuhner - professor of pharmacology in Leipzig - and the recently deceased Berlin pharmacologist P. Trendelenburg. S. is the author of a number of chapters in major collective guides on experimental pharmacology (ed. by A. Gefter) and on biological research methods (ed. by E. Abderhalden).