Lecons sur la Chaleur Animal sur les Effets de la Chaleur et sur la Fievre

by Claude Bernard

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First edition

8vo, modern 1/2 cloth. Paris: J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, 1876. First Edition. Fine copy with the half-title. Bernard was deeply involved in the problems of animal heat production and its regulation. While he accepted Lavoisier's theory, which attributed the origin of animal heat to a combustion process, Bernard insisted on two fundamental modifications: 1 this vital combustion...had to be a particular organic process, an indirect combustion taking place

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