Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 985

LAZZARO SPALLANZANI (1729-1799) Expériences sur la digestion de l'homme et de différentes espèces d'animaux. Chez Barthelemi Chirol 1783 cxlix, 320 pp. Copy 1: 19.6 cm. Quarter calf; Copy 2: 19.3 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 983

Spallanzani's fellow naturalist, Jean Senebier (1742-1809), has here translated the first six dissertations on digestion from his Dissertazioni di fisica animale e vegetabile (Modena, 1780). This is the first separate edition of the most important part of that work. Senebier, a Swiss, was also a pastor and librarian of the republic of Geneva. He became acquainted with Spallanzani during the summer of 1779 when Spallanzani was visiting Bonnet (see No. 947) in Geneva and the two became good friends.

See Related Record(s): 947

Cited references: Cushing S345 (1785 ed.); Osler 1218 (1784 ed.); Waller 9100 (1784 ed.)

Copy 2: Gift of John Martin, M.D