First Lines of Physiology

1803 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF SWISS PHYSIOLOGIST'S LANDMARK TREATISE ON PHYSIOLOGY FROM 1747.

13x22 cm hardcover, full leather binding, gilt red leather label to spine, contemporary ink signature of W. Parlier and bookplate of Robert L Chevalier MD to front paste-down, binding tight, [i-iv], 498 pp, scattered light foxing, very good in custom archival mylar cover.

ALBERT VON HALLER (1708 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave, he is often referred to as the father of modern physiology. When still hardly fifteen he was already the author of numerous metrical translations from Ovid, Horace and Virgil. In 1752, at the University of Gttingen, Haller published his thesis (De partibus corporis humani sensibilibus et irritabilibus) discussing the distinction between sensibility and irritability in organs, suggesting that nerves were sensible because of a person's ability to perceive contact while muscles were irritable because the fiber could measurably shorten on its own, regardless of a person's perception, when excited by a foreign body. Later in 1757, he conducted a famous series of experiments to distinguish between nerve impulses and muscular contractions. Haller then visited London, Paris, Basel, and Bern. His scientific researches procured for him from George II in 1736 a call to the chair of medicine, anatomy, botany and surgery in the newly founded University of Gttingen. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1743, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1747, and was ennobled in 1749. Offered here is the first American edition of the Edinburgh English translation of

GARRISON-MORTON No. 585 Primae lineae physiologiae in usum praelectionum academicarum, first published in Gttingen by A. Vandenhoeck, 1747.

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Publisher: Obadiah Penniman

Year: 1803

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Binding: Softcover

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