‎FONTANA (F.)‎
‎Traité sur le venin de la vipère, sur les poisons américains, sur le laurier-cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végétaux. On y a joint des observations sur la structure primitive du corps animal, différentes expériences sur la reproduction des nerfs et la description d'un nouveau canal de l'oeil -- 2 VOLUMES in 4‎

‎Florence, Nyon, 1781, 2 volumes grand in 4 reliés en cartonnage de l'époque, (défraîchi, travail de vers dans les marges extérieures et intérieures d'un vingtaine de feuillets au tome 2), T.1 : (1), 28pp., 329pp., T.2 : 11pp., 373pp., 10 PLANCHES dépliantes‎

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‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE EN PARTIE ORIGINALE REVUE, AUGMENTEE ET TRADUITE PAR FONTANA. ---- "The starting point of modern investigations of serpent venoms - Includes Fontana's work on the anatomy of the nerves and nerve regeneration". ---- "A classical and a standard Work in Neurology". (MacHenry italian ed.) ---- GARRISON N° 2103 : "THE GREATLY EXPANDED FRENCH TRANSLATION , 2 vols 1781, includes Fontana's work on the anatomy of the nerves and nerve regeneration. Vol. 2 discusses American poisons. This work also includes Fontana's description of the ciliary canal in the eye of an ox. This structure does not appear in the human eye, but certain spaces in the trabecular meshwork are often referred to as the spaces of Fontana" ---- "Fontana's treatise on the nerves is a little gold mine of ideas, for his time, on the frontier of this science. Not only did he describe and illustrate the solid axis "cylinder" of the "primitive nerve fiber", but also the degeneration of nerve, as it loses its function when separated from its center. He proceeded to cut the sciatic nerve in several different species and by stimulating the distal cut end made the muscles contract although the animal could no longer spontaneously move its foot...". (Haymaker p. 205) ---- "F.G. Fontana experimented on stimulation of the cerebral cortex with electricity and later on the effect of viper poison on the central nervous system...". (MacHenry pp. 123/124) - DSB V pp. 55/57**21360/2136/B5AR‎