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Toussaint Bordenave (1728-1782), surgeon and physiologist, was professor of physiology at the College of Surgery of Paris, director of the Royal Academy of Surgery and veteran associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences; he also became alderman of the city of Paris. Bordenave was greatly inspired by Haller (whose first work on physiology he translated in 1769) and Boerhaave; he nevertheless reports his personal opinions and observations.
The physiology of the different systems and organs is exposed. Cardiovascular physiology and neurophysiology are well presented, despite the concise nature of the book. Bordenave describes the physiological variations of the pulse, in particular according to waking or sleeping, and specifies that it is "more frequent in the evening than in the morning" (Lemmer). Note the short chapters on laughing, coughing, sneezing, yawning.
- Dechambre, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Medical Sciences, 1869, T. 10, pp. 87-88: "Bordenave published a Treatise on Physiology in which he summed up with great discernment what was positive in this science at the time; that is enough to say that the book was not voluminous. This work is still valuable today to show the state of physiology at the time when Haller, whom he took as a guide, published his great work.
Two volumes in one volume. Contemporary binding, fawn sheepskin, ribbed spine adorned with gilt fleurons and boxes, title label in old red leather with mosaic. Marbled slices.
Condition: Rubbing on caps, joints and flat edges. Interior in very good fresh condition. Good copy.
Toussaint Bordenave
Essay on the physiology or Physics of the human body. Fourth Edition
Paris, Chez Méquignon the Elder, 1787
in-12 (17 x 10 cm); xiv-293-(4)-374-(4) pp.
Subject: BORDENAVE Essay PHYSIOLOGY PHYSICS HUMAN BODY 1787 Surgery Medicine 67581293
