‎HALLER (A. Von)‎
‎La génération ou exposition des phénomènes relatifs à cette fonction naturelle ; de leur méchanisme, de leurs causes respectives et des effets immédiats qui en résultent. Traduite de la physiologie de M. De Haller et augmentée de quelques notes et d'une dissertation sur l'origine des eaux de l'amnios par M. Piet -- PREMIERE FRANCAISE -- 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET)‎

‎P., De La Doué, 1774, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en pleine basane mouchetée, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliures de l'époque), (coiffe usée, mors fendus mais solides, petites mouillures sans gravité dans la marge intérieure de quelques feuillets, quelques cahiers uniformément jaunis), T.1 : 6pp., (1), 641pp., T.2 : (2), 548pp.‎

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‎---- PREMIERE EDITOIN FRANCAISE ET PREMIERE TRADUCTION EN LANGUE VULGAIRE ---- Ce texte parut pour la première fois en latin dans les Elementa physiologia - 1757/1766 ---- "Haller applied his experimental methods to his studies of embryological development. He came to this studies through his investigations of the human gonads (he gave the first correct description of the rete testis, to which the designation Halleri is added in his honor). He then took up the chief generative problem of his time : the origin of the new individual... Haller began systematic investigations on hatching chicken eggs and, following the example of Harvey, on mammals. He made important specific discoveries in embryology. He was able to correct an error of Malpighi, who thought that he had observed a passageway connecting the right and left ventricles in the embryonic chickheart. He was further able to refute Jean Mery by showing that the blood flows from right to left through the foramen ovale in the interatrial septum and he perceived correctly that the branches of the unbilical vein leading into the fetal liver correspond to the branches of the portal vein in later development... He described with great accuracy the vascular system that supplies the bones... Haller's most important finding in embryology again shows his statistical bias ; he was able to devise a numerical method to demonstrate the rate of growth of the fetal body and its parts. By this quantitative determination he showed that fetal growth is relatively rapid in its earlier stages but that the tempo gradually decreases. These observations were entirely new and remain fundamentally correct...". (DSB VI p.65)**2559/D4‎