MAGENDIE, FRANCOIS.

Magendie's Vorlesungen über das Blut. Aus dem Französischen vion Gustav Krupp.

Leipzig, C.E. Kollmann, 1839. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt. Spine slightly rubbed. (6),250 pp. A faint dampstain in inner upper margin of the first 7 leaves.

First German edition. Magendie, the pioneer of experimental physiology in France, demonstrated the absorption of fluids and semisolids to be the function of the blood-vessels, as well as of the lynphatics. He was the founder in 1821, of the Journal de physiologie experimentale. - In this part of his "Vorlesungen" on the blood, Magendie showed that secondary or subsequent injections of egg/albumin caused death in rabbits who had tolerated an initial injection. This was the first experiment in anaphylaxis, though Jenner in 1798 had observed the phenomenon in variolous inoculations. (Garrison & Morton).

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