Dissertationes de partibus sensibilibus, et irritabilibus. De sanguinis motu, et cordis motu a stimulo nato.
HALLER, ALBRECHT VON
Lovanii, apud Laur. Jos. Van Rossum 1759. 8vo (16.7 x 9.7 cm). Contemporary mottled calf. Collation:[ii], 148 pp. The binding has raised bands on the spine with gilt floral design in panels. Upper panel has red morocco label. Hinges sound with wear on rear and partial loss of surface leather. Front hinge has breaks along entire length, cords intact and strong. There is also wear and minor loss to ends of spine. Edges of board and corners have some wear. All edges of text block painted in red. There is a green cloth book mark attached to top of text block. Text and marble end papers are in very good condition. This publication by Haller consists of three dissertations that are separated into separate sections and chapters that are noted in the Tabula sectionum et capitum at the end of the book. The present collection of a number of his researches into irritability, blood and the heart is a scarce and significant contribution to medical literature. The first two sections on irritability (pp.1-47were first published in Commrnt. Doc. Reg. sci. Gotting. (1752), 1753, vol. 2, pp. 114-58.(G&M 587). The remaining portions of the book appear for the first time. Haller was concerned with the relation between structure and function. From his vivisections on animals to study irritability and sensibility, he formulated a concept that "irritability, or the capacity of muscles to contract upon stimulation, and sensibility, or the capacity of the nervous system to transmit impressions that are felt as touch or pain in humans, or produce signs of pain in animals." (Steinke, 2005). The other parts of this book by Haller concern blood and the heart. "As early as 1740, in his notes to Boerhaave's lectures, Haller had assumed that the cause of cardiac activity - still unknown, must lie within the structure of the heart itself, and he gradually came to attribute such activity to muscle irritability. Haller's complete scientific delineation of nerve and muscle action laid the foundation for the advent of modern neurology. Haller was one of the greatest experimental anatomist and physiologists of the 18th century. Very Good + Full Calf (Item ID: 0000250)
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Haller was concerned with the relation between structure and function. From his vivisections on animals to study irritability and sensibility, he formulated a concept that "irritability, or the capacity of muscles to contract upon stimulation, and sensibility, or the capacity of the nervous system to transmit impressions that are felt as touch or pain in humans, or produce signs of pain in animals." (Steinke, 2005). The other parts of this book by Haller concern blood and the heart. Haller was one of the greatest experimental anatomist and physiologists of the 18th century.