‎MAGENDIE (F.)‎
‎Phénomènes physiques de la vie - Leçons professées au Collège de France -- 4 VOLUMES RELIES EN DEMI-CHAGRIN ROUGE (reliures de l'époque) -- COMPLETE SET‎

‎P., Baillière, 1842, 4 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en demi-chagrin rouge (reliures de l'époque), (quelques rousseurs et cahiers uniformément jaunis comme souvent, mouillures dans l'angle supérieur des premiers feuillets aux tomes 3 et 4, trace de poussière en bordure d'un feuillet au tome 3), T.1 : 316pp., (1), T.2 : (2), 376pp., T.3 : (2), 471pp., T.4 : (2), 400pp., (1-errata)‎

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‎---- OUVRAGE RARE ET BIEN COMPLET DE SES 4 VOLUMES ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- GARRISON N° 2217 : "Magendie, pioneer experimental physiologist, regarded pathology as only a modification of physiology, "medicine the physiology of the sick man". By him clinical medicine was reconstructed on physiological lines" ---- "These lectures were dominated by two main ideas : to extend as far as possible the purely physical explanation of vital phenomena and to base medical practice on the certain knowledge of normal and pathological physiology. Among the discoveries belonging to this period, the most interesting is that concerning the phenomenon later called anaphylaxis : Magendie ascertained that a second injection of egg white results in the death of rabbits that had tolerated perfectly well the first injection of the substance...". (DSB IX p. 10) ---- Le tome 4 contient les leçons sur le sang et ses altérations dans les maladies graves**3447/D3-3448/CAV.i5‎