Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1801

CLAUDE BERNARD (1813-1878) Leçons de physiologie opératoire. J.-B. Baillière 1879 xvi, 614 pp., illus. (some col.). Copy 1: 22 cm.; Copy 2: 22.7 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1792

Bernard began work on this, his last book, in 1873 and did not quite finish the final corrections before his death. Utilizing, in part, a series of lectures he had given in 1859-1860, he brought them up to date, performed new experiments where necessary, and added new material to complete the work. Bernard had revised only twenty of the twenty-nine lectures in the book at the time of his death and it remained for his assistants Mathias Marie Duval (1844-1907) and Arsène d'Arsonval (1851-1940) to finish the work. Arranged in four parts, the treatise discusses general physiological processes, the techniques and methods used in experimental physiology, physiology of the circulatory system along with experimental pharmacology, and the physiology of the digestive system.

Cited references: Cushing B317; Garrison-Morton 634; Osler 1518; Waller 955

Copy 1: Gift of Mrs. Diana A. Stokes. Copy 2: Gift of John Martin, M.D