Having worked with Carl Ludwig, Ivan Pavlov’s first independent research was on the physiology of the circulatory system. From 1888 to 1890, in St. Petersburg, he investigated cardiac physiology and blood pressure regulation. He became so skillful as a surgeon that he could introduce a catheter into a dog’s femoral artery almost painlessly.
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Ivan Pavlov gave up studying theology to enter the University of St. Petersburg, where he studied chemistry and physiology. After receiving an M.D. at the Imperial Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, he studied in Germany under the direction of the cardiovascular physiologist Carl Ludwig and the gastrointestinal physiologist Rudolf Heidenhain.
