Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1926

EDME FELIX ALFRED VULPIAN (1826-1887) Leçons sur la physiologie générale et comparée du système nerveux. Germer Baillière 1866 [6] 920 pp. 21.4 cm.

Vulpian received his medical training at Paris where he was a pupil of Flourens (see No. 1513 ff.) and followed him in the chair of comparative physiology at the Museum of Natural History in 1864. He succeeded Cruveilhier (see No. 1478 ff.) as chairman of the department of pathology at the Salpêtrière where he made extensive studies upon the action of various drugs on the nervous system and studied the principles of degeneration and regeneration in the nervous system. He was associated with Charcot (see No. 1918 ff.) at the Salpêtrière and Charcot credited Vulpian's work for his success in describing multiple sclerosis. Among other discoveries, Vulpian first showed that the adrenal cortex produces a substance later called adrenalin. This exhaustive treatise contains thirty-seven lectures on the physiology of the nervous system which summarize the subject as understood at the middle of the nineteenth century. A number of the lectures had previously appeared in the Revue des cours scientifiques and Vulpian decided to assemble them all in this book.

See Related Record(s): 1513 1478 1918

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