"HASSENFRATZ, (JEAN-HENRI). - THE LAGRANGE-HASSENFRATZ THEORY OF RESPIRATION.
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(1791)
Paris, 1791. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Spine a bit rubbed. Wear to top of spine. A dampstain to lower right corners on the first 15 leaves of the volume. Stamps to verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie"" Tome 9. 355 pp. a. 1 engraved plate. (Entire volume offered). Hassenfratz's paper: pp. 261-274.
First printing of a classic paper in physiology.""Hassenfratz, a pupil of Lagrange, maintained that the oxidation of carbon and hydrogen took place in the blood, and not in the lungs as taught by others.""(Garrison & Morton: 926).