Deux mémoires sur le mouvement du sang et sur les effets de la saignée; fondés sur des expériences faites sur des animaux. FIRST EDITION.

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Frontispiece, 1 leaf [title page], viii, 343 pp. Contemporary 1/4-leather and boards. Small piece missing at top of spine. Front joint is split and very worn. Edges of boards and corners of covers worn. Upper margin trimmed close to the text on some leaves, but the text is not affected. Stain on frontispiece, title page, and next few leaves. Text browned and foxed. Good. First Edition. Mémoire I (October 8, 1754): "Exposé analytique des resultats tirés des experiences" and "Supplement . . . Observations sur la cause du movement du coeur" (November 10, 1751) (pp. 1-174). Mémoire II (March 26, 1756): "Exposé synthetique des faits, sur lesquels se fonde le Mémoire I" (pp. 175-342). Garrison-Morton 11607: "In these memoirs Haller described the results of 235 vivisections. Haller has been called 'the founder of modern haemodynamics.' 'The myogenic theory of the heartbeat can be traced to Haller, who concluded on the basis of animal experiments that the heart beat spontaneously, independent of nervous or other connections. He argued that the heart muscle had intrinsic irritability' (W. Bruce Fye)." "This ushered in the developments which were to lay the foundations of a new branch of physiology, haemodynamics. The last task in reaching this goal consisted in synthesising all existing findings and confirming and adding to them in further experiments. The final step was to preserve these results in a suitable literary form for posterity. The man--who was probably the only one who could have accomplished this gigantic work--was Albrecht von Haller, the greatest man of medicine of the eighteenth century" (Heinrich Buess, "William Harvey and the Foundation of Modern Haemodynamics by Albrecht von Haller," Medical History, Vol. 14, 1970, p. 179). "This work on the heart stamps Haller as a first-class investigator and experimental physiologist. His findings are based on animal experimentation and the experiments are carefully documented. The plate [frontispiece] showing human blood transfusion is particularly interesting." (Heirs of Hippocrates 885). "In these Memoires [Haller] supported Harvey in regarding the heart as the sole source of the circulation, but he noted the effect of respiration on the jugular veins" (Evan Bedford Library of Cardiology, no. 242). N° de ref. del artículo 17216

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