‎HALLER (A. von)‎
‎Dissertation sur les parties irritables et sensibles des animaux. Traduit du latin par M. Tissot -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE -- BON EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎Lausanne, Bousquet, 1755, un volume in 12 relié en pleine basane, dos orné de fers dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (habiles restaurations à la coiffe et aux mors), 50pp., 100pp.‎

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‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ET PREMIERE TRADUCTION EN LANGUE VULGAIRE ---- Ce texte parut pour la première fois en latin en 1753 dans le tome 2 des mémoires de la Société Royale de Göttingue ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Glisson in 1677 had introduced the concept of irritability as a specific property of all tissues. Haller, in the above work, recorded his experimental proof of this and distinguished between nerve impulse (sensibility) and muscular contraction (irritability)". (Garrison N° 587 1753 latin édit. in Comment. Soc. reg. sci. Gotting. vol. 2) ---- "Haller, the greatest systemist since Galen and one of the most imposing figures in all medical history, synthesized all previous knowledge of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology... His most important original contribution to neurophysiology was his elaboration of Glisson's theory of irritability. His studies were based on 567 experiments on various animals by himself and his pupils. Haller clearly distinguished irritability and sensibility, which were considered to be separate and independent of each other. This included the heart, which Haller considered to function independently of the nervous system. Sensibility, the ability of the nerves to convey an impondeable very thin and invisible fluid , was the exclusive property of nervous tissue...". (MacHenry p. 109)**2561/ARM1A‎