Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1252

JULIEN JEAN CéSAR LEGALLOIS (1770-1814) Oeuvres. Chez Le Rouge 1830 Vol. I: [6] 402 pp.; Vol. II: [4] 362 [2] pp., tables (1 fold.). 20.6 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1251

Legallois' medical studies were interrupted by the French Revolution and so he did not receive his medical degree until 1801 from the École de Santé in Paris. Nevertheless, he was able to make significant advances in neurophysiology and was one of the first French physiologists to base his findings on animal experiments. This posthumous work, edited by Étienne Pariset (1770-1847), contains his best known work (see No. 1251) as well as his doctoral thesis Le sang est-il identique dans tous les vaisseaux qu'il parcourt? ("Is blood identical in all vessels it passes through?") in which he anticipated an understanding of internal secretions. His son, Eugène (1804-1831), wrote a biography of his father which is included as a preface in Volume I.

Cited references: Wellcome III, p. 479

Gift of John Martin, M.D.