Physiological Researches on Life and Death. Translated from the French

by F. Gold...with Notes by F. Magendie. the Notes translated by George Hayward by Xavier Bichat

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pp. viii, 9 -334. 1 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary sheep, worn, cover slightly sprung, foxed, front free-endpaper missing, else a very good tight copy. Signed Baj. L. Swan 1`836. See Garrison-Morton 597: When Volta questioned the validity of experiments claiming to show responsiveness of an ex vivo heart, devoid of blood flow and nervous connections, Bichat obtained permission to experiment on the freshly killed bodies of those guillotined during the French Revolution. His trials on both

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