Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1251

JULIEN JEAN CéSAR LEGALLOIS (1770-1814) Expériences sur le principe de la vie. d'Hautel 1812x xxiv, 364 pp., fold. plate. 19.2 cm.

A pupil of Magendie (see No. 1379 ff.), Legallois was one of the earliest neurophysiologists. In this, his most celebrated work, he describes the role of the vagus nerve in cardiac and pulmonary functioning, gives the location of the medullary center for respiratory control, and revives the neurogenic theory of the heartbeat, last expounded by Borelli (see No. 496).

See Related Record(s): 1379 496

Cited references: Cushing L131; Garrison-Morton 928; Waller 5679; Wellcome III, p. 479

Gift of John Martin, M.D.