‎MULLER (J.)‎
‎Physiologie du système nerveux ou recherches et expériences sur les diverses classes d'appareils nerveux, les mouvemens, la voix, la parole, les sens et les facultés intellectuelles. Traduite de l'allemand, sur la troisième édition, par A.J.L. Jourdan -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE‎

‎P., Baillière, 1840, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en demi-chagrin vert, dos ornés de filets dorés (reliures de l'époque), (accroc à une coiffe, petites auréoles sans gravité dans les marges supérieures des derniers feuillets du tome 2 et dans les marges supérieures des planches, accroc à une coiffe), T.1 : 6pp., 640pp., T.2 (2), 644pp., 4 PLANCHES dépliantes, 80 figures dans le texte‎

Reference : 3822

‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- Traduction par JOURDAN de la partie consacrée à la physiologie du système nerveux du Traité de physiologie de J. Muller A LAQUELLE IL A AJOUTE ET TRADUIT UN OPUSCULE DE J. MULLER sur la compensation des forces physiques dans l'organe vocal de l'homme (Ueber die compensation der physischen kroeste am menchlichen stimmorgen, Berlin, 1839) ---- "A classical and a standard Work in Neurology". (MacHenry french ed.) ---- "Muller was responsable for a remarkable advance in neurophysiology : confirmation of the Bell-Magendie law by means of a simple experiment performed on the frog. He established experimentally that the first and second branches of the trigeminal nerve are sensory and that the third branch contains, in addition to sensory fibers, motor fibers for the jaw muscles. He also asserted, again on the basis of his own research, that the glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves are of the mixed type. This research led to the first comprehensive scientific conception of the nervous system as a unit. In 1833 Muller studied the phenomena of reflection, by which he meant the involuntary transition - occurring in the spinal cord or brain - of excitation from the centripetally conducting nerves to the centrifugally conducting ones. He also describes coughing, sneezing, hiccuping, vomiting and ejaculation as reflex arcs located along the spinal cord and medulla oblongata, thereby contributing a fundamental new insight into the study of such phenomena. With his reflex theory Muller was able to explain many processes in the human organism and was also able to demonstrate his ideas on animals - an achievement that his era, so fond of experimentation, considered of no less importance.". (DSB IX pp. 570/571) ---- Haymaker pp. 243/247**3822/H3-3824/CART8‎