Recherche sur le tissus muqueux , ou l'organe cellulaire, et sur quelques maladies de poitrine [Ensemble] L'usage des eaux de Bareges et du mercure, pour les ecrouelles : ou dissertation sur les tumeurs scrophuleuses

First edition for the first work and new edition for Les eaux de Barege.
Contemporary full marbled calf binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title label. Some rubbing, 2 corners slightly bumped and foxing on the title page.
Theophile Bordeu (1722-1776) is considered one of the greatest physicians of the 18th century, and one of the most famous theorists. He is the founder of pathological physiology and his work would give birth to Bichat's General Anatomy. The work in question reports important discoveries on the structure of tissues, and notably, it is one of the principal books on cellular role and importance. His vitalist physiology principles would earn him being taken as a model by Diderot in D'Alembert's Dream.
Jourdan, Medical Biography, 402: "Pour louer dignement ce bel ouvrage, is suffit de dire qu'il donna certainement à Bichat l'idée de son Anatomie générale, et qu'il en devint un chapitre, par un de ces heureux larcins que Bichat a su se faire pardonner en y joignant une foule de remarques qui n"appartenaient qu' à lui." ["To worthily praise this beautiful work, it suffices to say that it certainly gave Bichat the idea for his General Anatomy, and that it became a chapter thereof, through one of those fortunate thefts that Bichat knew how to have forgiven by adding a host of remarks that belonged only to him."]
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