Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2003

LOUIS ANTOINE RANVIER (1835-1922) Traité technique d'histologie. F. Savy 1889 2nd ed. [4] 871 [1] 4 pp., col. plate, 414 illus. 23.1 cm.

Among the many notable French neurologists and neuroanatomists of the nineteenth century, Ranvier stands out as the individual who concentrated his studies on the histological structure of the nervous system and described the segmental interruptions of the medullary nerve sheaths of peripheral nerves (nodes of Ranvier). Ranvier also refined and popularized the use of the microtome. At Paris in 1878 Ranvier wrote the first definitive textbook on the histology of the nervous system, Leçons sur l'histologie du système nerveux. In the present work Ranvier describes his methods for obtaining, fixing, sectioning, staining, and studying histological specimens.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.