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BICHAT, [MARIE FRANÇOIS] XAV[IER]. Anatomie générale, appliquée a la physiologie et a la médecine. Paris: Brosson, Gabon et Cie, 1801. 2 folding tables. 2 parts bound in 4 volumes, 8vo, modern quarter brown calf, spines gilt-lettered; 16 leaves with internal tear (crossing text) in vol. 3, fore-margins on approximately 30 leaves in vol. 3 stained, other light marginal soiling and dampstaining, scattered light foxing, early owner's signature on each title and half-title. FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 403 ("One of medicine's most important books. Bichat revolutionized descriptive anatomy. Where Morgani and others had conceived of whole organs being diseased, Bichat showed how individual tissues could be separately affected"); Waller 1027. (4)