Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1769

FRANCOIS ACHILLE LONGET (1811-1871) Recherches expérimentales et pathologiques sur les propriétés et les fonctions des faisceaux de la moelle épinière et des racines des nerfs rachidiens. Bechet jeune et Labé 1841 187 pp. 22.3 cm.

Longet was one of a group of nineteenth-century French experimental physiologists who made important new discoveries concerning the nature of the nervous system. It was Longet who first demonstrated that motor impulses were transmitted in the anterior section of the spinal cord while sensory messages were confined to the posterior portion. The present work on experimental pathology of the nervous system is the first of several noteworthy contributions by Longet.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.