‎LE CAT (M.)‎
‎Oeuvres physiologiques : TRAITE DES SENSATIONS ET DES PASSIONS - LA THEORIE DE L'OUIE : SUPPLEMENT A CET ARTICLE DU TRAITE DES SENS -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- 3 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET)‎

‎P., Vallat-La-Chapelle, 1767/1768, 3 volumes in 8 reliés en pleine basane marbrée, dos ornés de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliures de l'époque), (2 coiffes émoussées, petit manque de papier d'origine dans la marge inférieure de la page de titre au tome 1, tache brune sur le second plat au tome 3), T.1 : 1 portrait, 95pp., 264pp., 2 planches, T.2 : 1 frontispice, 56pp., 684pp., 19 planches, T.3 : 1 frontispice, 32pp., 320pp., (2), 13 planches‎

Reference : 3177

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- "Le Cat's most important work". (DSB) ---- "Le Cat must be remembered primarily, with Vaucanson and Quesnay, as one of the first adherents of a mechanistic approach to physiology. The three-volume collected Oeuvres physiologiques (Paris 1767/1768) comprise Traité des sensations et des passions en general, Traité des sens and la Théorie de l'ouie. Le Cat's medical investigations led him to a theory whereby malignant fevers represent the internalization of external diseases of a herpetic nature, while disease itself is directly attributable to a qualitative or quantitative loss of nervous fluid. In his biomechanic notion of the organism as a hydraulic machine, he drew an analogy between the animal economy and a system of pipes and tubes... The Traité des sens grew as much out of his researches in physics as in physiology". (DSB VIII pp. 114/115)**3177/ARM2A‎