Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1938

JULES BERNARD LUYS (1828-1897) Iconographie photographique des centres nerveux. J. B. Baillière 1873 [135] plates. 33.2 cm.

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This large work depicting the brain from many angles and planes of section is a pioneering effort in anatomical illustration. The photographs were taken by Luys himself while working at the Salpêtrière. He published the work because some of the lithographs prepared from his drawings for Recherches sur le système nerveux cérébrospinal (see No. 1937) were challenged and he felt that photographic documentation would allay all criticism. In order to prepare the photographs for this first photographic collection of brain sections, Luys developed his own methods of specimen preparation as well as special apparatus so that the brain sections would be as true to life as possible. As a result, he felt that he had fully justified his earlier work and had achieved even better results. The work consists of four portfolios containing text (vii, 73 pp.), seventy plates of mounted photographs, and sixty-five plates of outline drawings as originally issued by the publisher.

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Gift of John Martin, M.D.