DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume-Benjamin. De l'électrisation localisée et de son application à la physiologie, à la pathologie et à la thérapeutique. 1861.
DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume-Benjamin.
De l'électrisation localisée et de son application à la physiologie, à la pathologie et à la thérapeutique.
Paris, J. -B. Baillière et Fils, 1861.
8vo (214x139 mm), xi-1046 pages, 1 plate and 10 pages of editor's catalog. binding : Contemporary quarter sheep, gilt flat spine lettered in gilt, blue edges. Spine faded and rubbings on joints. Some stainings and one lack of paper on covers. Some foxing.
Second edition.
Without the Album published in 1862
Duchenne de Boulogne (1806-1875) is one of the greatest clinicians of the 19th century and the founder of neurology.
He is also one of the pioneers in the use of electricity as an instrument for physiological experiments. The use of alternating current allows it to precisely stimulate only one muscle beam at a time.
references: Garrison-Morton [1995 & 614 (ed. 1855): "Duchenne classified the electrophysiology of the entire muscular system and summed up his findings in the above work. The application of his results to pathological conditions marks him as the founder of electrotherapy. An Album de photographies pathologiques was published in 1862 to accompany the text of the second edition, 1861. [...] Duchenne, most famous of the electrotherapists, employed faradic current in treating patients as early as 1830."].
Price : 250 €
