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184741262London: Fisher Son & Co 1847. Margin: 277x213 mm. Very faint foxing around the edges. Facsimile signature. Fisher, Son & Co unknown books
1827MMRM1093Boston:: Richardson and Lord 1827. 1827. 8vo. viii 9-334 pp. Original calf gilt-ruled spine red leather gilt-stamped label; joints repaired with kozo. Pages browned foxed and waterstained throughout. Owner's penciled name "W. C. Bettencourt" of Wilmington North Carolina fl.1854-1880s on front free-endpaper and preface-page. Good. First Boston edition after the Philadelphia 1809 edition which translated with second edition of Bichat. This issue translated by F. Gold with notes by Francois Magendie 1783-1855 with added notes translated by George Hayward M. D. "When Volta questioned the validity of experiments claiming to show responsiveness of an ex vivo heart devoid of blood flow and nervous connections Bichat obtained permission to experiment on the freshly killed bodies of those guillotined during the French Revolution. His trials on both laboratory animals and human cadavers led him to conclude that cardiac excitation by electricity would occur only when the organ was simulated by direct contact." – Garrison and Morton 597. PROVENANCE: William C. Bettencourt Wilmington North Carolina "first arrived in New Hanover County North Carolina as an immigrant from France in 1817. He had a wife Mary a son William H. "Willie" and a daughter Amy. Bettencourt seems to have had significant financial resources and become prominent socially. He served as a director of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad ca. 1861–1862. He also served as postmaster in Wilmington for many years from at least 1846 to the 1880s. In the 1850s he appears to have been a U.S. Treasury Department official in Wilmington. As a consequence he had some political influence in the state of North Carolina and often traveled back and forth to Chapel Hill for business." – East Carolina University Joyner Library. Richardson and Lord, 1827. hardcover books
1845401884Paris: Fortin Masson et Cie 1845. Later edition. Pale dampstain to first few leaves binding slightly rubbed overall in good condition/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. 392 pp. Engraved frontispiece by Leroux after E. Marc of David's sculpture of Bichat. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. "When Volta questioned the validity of experiments claiming to show responsiveness of an ex vivo heart devoid of blood flow and nervous connections Bichat obtained permission to experiment upon the freshly killed bodies of those guillotined during the French Revolution. His trials on both laboratory animals and human cadavers led him to conclude that cardiac excitation by electricity would occur only when the organ was stimulated by direct contact" Garrison-Morton-Norman 597 first edition of 1800. <br/><br/> Fortin, Masson et Cie hardcover books
18554213bdParis: Adolphe Delahays 1855. Octavo calf & patterned boards hardcover double-columned vii 406 pp. Bichat famously defined life as “those set of Functions which resist death.†His career is recounted in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Very Good. Adolphe Delahays, 1855. hardcover books
1827MMRM1094Paris:: Gabon 1827. 1827. 8vo. xxxiv 349 pp. Early quarter gilt-stamped black calf marbled boards. Fine copy. Early edition augmented with the notes of Francois Magendie 1783-1855. "Bichat conceived the idea of a science of anatomy and pathology based upon an accurate classification of the various tissues of the body their distribution in the various organs and parts and their particular susceptibilities to disease Corner. He is regarded as the founder of modern histology and tissue pathology." - Garrison and Morton 537. "The foundation of histology and tissue pathology. Bichat generalized Pinel's theory expressed in Nosographie Philosophique 1798 that pathology must be based upon the structure on the tissues of which bodily organs are composed regardless of where in the body they occur. Bichat distinguished twenty-one different types of tissue which he classified according to texture and to properties: extensibility contractility and the vital properties--organic contractility and sensibility 'insensible' or 'subliminal' on the one hand and animal contractility and sensibility 'sensible' or 'conscious' on the other. Each tissue differed in its diseases as diseases were nothing more than alterations in the tissue's vital properties. Claude Bernard said of Bichat that he 'decentralized life and incarnated it in the tissues' - Norman in Hall II 129. Gabon, [1827]. hardcover books
1827237443Boston: Richardson and Lord 1827. hardcover. very good. Translated from the French by F. Gold. 334 pages small water stain on margins of first pages 8vo full mottled calf rubbed red spine label.Boston: Richardson and Lord 1827. Very good.<br/><br/> Early owners name on fly-leaf.<br/><br/> Richardson and Lord unknown books
182733666Boston: Richardson and Lord 1827. 8vo pp. viii 9-334; minor foxing bookplate removed else very good contemporary full calf neatly rebacked with old spine laid down red morocco label. First published in Paris in 1800. See Garrison-Morton 597: "When Volta questioned the validity of experiments claiming to show responsiveness of an ex vivo heart devoid of blood flow and nervous connections Bichat obtained permission to experiment on the freshly killed bodies of those guillotined during the French Revolution. His trials on both laboratory animals and human cadavers led him to conclude that cardiac excitation by electricity would occur only when the organ was simulated by direct contact. <br/><br/> Richardson and Lord unknown books
182756240Boston: Published by Richardson and Lord. J.H.A. Frost Printer 1827. 1 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary sheep worn cover slightly sprung foxed front free-endpaper missing else a very good tight copy. 1 vols. 8vo. One of Bichat's most influential works wherein he examines what happens in violent accidental and sudden death. Published by Richardson and Lord. J.H.A. Frost, Printer unknown books
18054259bdParis: Chez Brosson et Gabon Ann. XIII-1805. Octavo full polished calf hardcover leather calf labels blind-stamped decorations to spine xx 347 pp. Bichat the French anatomist and pathologist is best known as the Father of Histology. For his research in this particular work he obtained permission to examine recently guillontined bodies in order to perform his experiments and propose his theories of the relationships of the brain heart and lungs in violent or sudden death. Third edition of Garrison & Morton 5th 597. Very Good bearing the bookplate of David Gibson M.D. Chez Brosson et Gabon, Ann. XIII-1805. hardcover books
180135956Paris: Gabon; Brosson 1801. Bichat Marie Francois Xavier 1771-1802. Traite d'anatomie descriptive. 5 vols. 8vo. Paris: Gabon et Cie.; Brosson 1801-3. 201 x 126 mm. Calf c. 1803 gilt spines rubbed some hinges cracking head of Vol. V spine chipped. Occasional foxing & soiling stains in inner margins of first and last few leaves in most vols. corner of one leaf in Vol. IV torn with loss of a few letters but a very good crisp copy. 19th cent. engraved bookplate of Dr. Macreight probably Chambers Macreight botanist and physician 1799-1856. </p> <p>First Edition. Garrison-Morton 404; 1315. Bichat was the founder of pathological anatomy creating a theory of disease based on tissues rather than organs. "Bichat's five-volume Anatomie descriptive 1801-3 and his work on general anatomy applied to physiology and medicine 1802 opened out an entirely new field for anatomists that of a detailed description of the parts and tissues of the body in health and disease. . . . Bichat was a forerunner of Henle and the histologists dividing the tissues into 21 non-microscopic varieties which he treated as indivisible parts like the elements in chemistry each tissue having its own particular kind of sensibility and contractibility" Garrison Hist. Med. pp. 444-45. The Anatomie descriptive was Bichat's last exposition of his pathological system; he died in 1802 at the age of 31 having completed only the first three volumes. The remaining volumes were completed by Francois Buisson and Philibert-Joseph Roux. Vol. III includes the section "Nerfs de la vie organique" in which Bichat introduced the terms "animal" and "vegetative" system. Maulitz Morbid Appearances pp. 9-35. Waller 1031. Gabon; Brosson unknown books
