Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1770

FRANçOIS ACHILLE LONGET (1811-1871) Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux de l'homme et des animaux vertébrés. Fortin, Masson 1842 Vol. I: viii, 942 pp., 4 fold. plates; Vol. II: 698 pp., 4 fold. plates. 21.3 cm.

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This extensive work systematically covers the anatomy of the nervous system; and includes a particularly important discussion of the cranial nerves and the then incompletely understood autonomic nervous system. Also presented here is the first complete description of the complex nerve innervation of the larynx.

Cited references: Wellcome III, p. 544

Gift of John Martin, M.D.