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BERNARD, Claude. Introduction l'étude de la médecine expérimentale. Paris: Typ. et str. de Crété (Corbeil) for J.B. Baillière, 1865.
8o (204 x 132 mm). Contemporary green quarter morocco (slightly rubbed). Provenance: Bibliothèque de Varagnes (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. The systematic animal experimentation to which Bernard devoted his career resulted in significant discoveries in the areas of nervous physiology, the mechanisms of poisoning and the physiology of digestion. While these discoveries were first described in technical papers and lectures, the present work offered Bernard's "own personal analysis of the scientific method" (PMM). Intended as the introduction to a multi-volume work that was never finished, this "masterly justification and exposition of the use of the experimental method in studying life phenomena has remained a classic of both scientific and philosophical literature" (Norman).
The Crété imprint of this copy indicates that it is a first impression. According to Norman, later impressions were printed by E. Martinet. Garrison-Morton 1766.501; Grmek 29; Grolier/Horblit 11b; Heirs of Hippocrates 1797; Norman 206-7; Osler 1511; PMM 353; Waller 951.
8o (204 x 132 mm). Contemporary green quarter morocco (slightly rubbed). Provenance: Bibliothèque de Varagnes (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. The systematic animal experimentation to which Bernard devoted his career resulted in significant discoveries in the areas of nervous physiology, the mechanisms of poisoning and the physiology of digestion. While these discoveries were first described in technical papers and lectures, the present work offered Bernard's "own personal analysis of the scientific method" (PMM). Intended as the introduction to a multi-volume work that was never finished, this "masterly justification and exposition of the use of the experimental method in studying life phenomena has remained a classic of both scientific and philosophical literature" (Norman).
The Crété imprint of this copy indicates that it is a first impression. According to Norman, later impressions were printed by E. Martinet. Garrison-Morton 1766.501; Grmek 29; Grolier/Horblit 11b; Heirs of Hippocrates 1797; Norman 206-7; Osler 1511; PMM 353; Waller 951.