Traité de l'existence de la nature et des propriétés du fluide des nerfs et princepalement de son action dans le mouvement musculaire .

Le Cat, Claude Nicolas

Erscheinungsdatum: 1765

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Berlin, o.V., 1765, 8°, (4), 331, (4) pp., mit 2 gestoch. Kopfvignetten und 6 gefalt. Kupferstich-Tafeln, restaurierter Kalbsledereinband der Zeit; frisches Exemplar. First edition in book form of two publications that had originally appeared in the collection of prize dissertations of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and which are here corrected and much enlarged by the author. The complete titel : " Traité de l'existance, de la nature et des propriétés du fluide des nerfs et principalement de son action dans le mouvement musculaire : ouvrage couronné en 1753 par l'Académie de Berlin ; Suivi des dissertations sur la sensibilité des meninges, des tendons, &c., l'insensibilité du cerveau, la structure des nerfs, l'irritabilité Hallérienne, etc. " The first deals with the nature and properties of the nervous fluid and its influence on muscular motion, and the second with the sensibility of the meninges, and the insensibility of the brain and the structure of the nerves, ending with a criticism of Haller's theory of irritability. These texts are of importance for the theories of muscular contraction and nerve conduction at the time which preceded Galvani's experiments to stimulate muscles and nerves by electricity. Charles Nicolas Le Cat (1700-1768) was also one of the chief writers before the nineteenth century on spina bifida, illustrated on two of the plates. Claude Nicolas Le Cat (1700-1768) "in 1751 resected a malignant tumor of the first four lumbar vertebrate which had developed at the site of an earlier injury and which, in all probability, was a primary neoplasm." Marham "According to Markham laminectomy for resection of a malignant spinal extradural neoplasm was probably performed first by Le Cat, in 1751. Concomitant with the growth of neurologic surgery these lesions have been attacked more often and by mid-twentieth century several series of such cases had been reported." R. Lewis Wright, Malignant Tumors in the Spinal Extradural Space. DSB, VIII, 114-116 ; Wellcome, III, 468 ; Hirsch, III, 709 ; Blake, p.260 ; Neuburger, The Historical development of Experimental Brain, p. 89; Markham, J. W.: Surgery of the Spinal Cord and Vertebral Column. In Walker, A. E.: A History of Neurological Surgery. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1951, p. 38 Not in Waller, McHenry, Cushing, Osler. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 47523

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