ROBIN, Charles-Philippe || VERDEIL, François. Traité de chimie anatomique et physiologique normale et pathologique ou des principes immédiats normaux et morbides qui constituent le corps de l'homme et des mammifères. 1853.
ROBIN, Charles-Philippe || VERDEIL, François.
Traité de chimie anatomique et physiologique normale et pathologique ou des principes immédiats normaux et morbides qui constituent le corps de l'homme et des mammifères.
Paris, J.-B. Baillière, 1853.
Three 8vo (210x126 mm) and the atlas (256x167 mm), vol. 1: xxxii-728 pages / vol. 2: (4)-584 pages / vol. 3: (4)-595 pages / Atlas: 36 pages and 45 plates. binding : Contemporary quarter sheep, flat spine lettered in gilt. Atlas: Original quarter cloth, flat spine, title on lettering-piece. Three spines fadded. A tear on the lower part of the atlas's spine. A waterstain on margin of plate 31.
First edition.
Charles-Philippe Robin (1821-1885), was a doctor, a botanist, and a French physiologist.
This book is the result of his research, which aimed to analyze the different components of human tissues and those of animals. The atlas illustrates more than 1000 crystals observed under the microscope and which are parts of the tissues studied. Out of 26 plates of the atlas are watercolored by hand.
references: DSB [XI, p.492: " For him the real seat of life was constituted by the humoral parts of the organism. Beyond the fixed anatomical elements, there must be, he thought, a molecular organization that explained the morphology. In his opinion, therefore, microscopic investigation was only a stage of biological research and must be followed by chemical analysis. In collaboration with a chemist, F. Verdeil, Robin studied the chemical compounds of which the organism is composed. Despite its display of useful information, the resulting 'Traité de chimie anatomique et physiologique, normale et pathologique' (1852-1853), showed that research oriented in this direction led at that time to a dead end and that, given the contemporary state of chemical knowledge, the superiority of a morphological approach was undeniable."].
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