1765 Le Cat on Muscle Nerve Fluid | 1st edition Medicine Human Anatomy NERVES

1765 Le Cat on Muscle Nerve Fluid | 1^st edition Medicine Human Anatomy NERVES

Claude-Nicolas Le Cat was an 18^th-century surgeon who published an interesting treatise on the existence of fluid in the nerves and how nerves affect the movement of muscles. This work proved to be an important and comprehensive work on the anatomy of human nerves, the functions of tendons and muscular ligaments, as well as descriptions of nerves and nerve structure.

This fine first edition of Le Cat’s “Fluid of Nerves” includes 5 folding engravings depicting anatomy of human nerves. “Heirs of Hippocrates” notes that this book was a prize dissertation of the Royal Academy of Berlin. A true masterpiece in medical research.

Item number: #28289

Price: $499

LE CAT, Claude-Nicolas

Traité de l’existence, de la nature et des propriétés du fluide des nerfs, et principalement de son action dans le mouvement musculaire

A Berlin: 1765.

Details:

• Collation:
  • [8], 331, [1]
  • 5 folding plates (of 6)
• References: HoH 852; Wellcome III, 468;
• Provenance: Bookplate – N. P. Ledru, Cognomine Comus
  • Nicolas-Philippe Ledru (1731–1807), known as Comus, was a noted European physicist, prestidigitator and illusionist of the late 18th century. He entertained royalty, aristocrats, and the general public with his scientific experiments on sound, light, electricity, magnetism, incompressibility of water and so on. He also devised a new system for nautical maps and an application of electricity for therapeutic purposes for epilepsy. Louis XV, who appointed him his physician, gave him the title Professeur de Physique des Enfants de France. Comus was imprisoned during the Terror but avoided the guillotine, and died in 1807 a wealthy man.
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 13cm)

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