Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 882

ALBRECHT VON HALLER (1708-1777) Primae lineae physiologiae. Ap. viduam Ab. Vandenhoeck 1751 567 (misnumbered 564) pp. 17.1 cm.

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Although Haller had many interests and talents, he was chiefly a physiologist, and one of his greatest contributions to physiology was his demonstration that irritability is a specific property of all muscle tissue and that sensibility is the exclusive property of nervous tissue. This work, first published in 1747, contains many of the ideas that Haller later developed more fully in Elementa physiologiae corporis humani (see No. 886), including his resonance theory, similar to that already advanced by Du Verney (see No. 664 ff.) and to that of Helmholtz more than one hundred years later.

See Related Record(s): 886 664

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 585 (1747 ed.); Waller 4018 (1747 ed.); Wellcome III, p. 198

Gift of John Martin, M.D.