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BERNARD, Claude |
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LECONS SUR LES EFFETS DES SUBSTANCES TOXIQUES ET MEDICAMENTEUSES. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. Paris, Bailliere et Fils. 1857. lacks half title. pp. vii, 488; 32 text Figs. Contemporary quarter morocco, scuffed with head of spine knocked. Bookplate on front pastedown and small stamp at foot of title. Contents very clean. |
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* G&M 1863 - 'Bernard included a summary of his experiments with curare in the Lecons to establish his priority in researching its effects. He demonstrated in these experiments the susceptibility of the nerve-muscle preparation to a chemical (pharamcological) effect'. £185 £150 |
| Author: |
LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus. |
| Title: |
THE EPICUREAN PHILOSOPHER, His Six Books DE RERUM NATURA Done into English Verse, With Notes. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. |
| Description: |
Oxford, Printed by L. Lichfield...For Anthony Stephens. 1683. Engraved Frontispiece, pp. (xl), 223, 59. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Slight water staining at margins, mainly early and at the fore-edge, otherwise, a very good copy. |
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* Translated by Thomas Creech. A pencilled comment on the rear pastedown notes that this translation was highly praised by Mr Dryden.
Lucretius Carus (95-55 B.C.) was a contemporary of Varro and a poet and philosopher and, as Castiglioni notes, 'author of the most beautiful scientific work of classic Latinism, the De Rerum Natura, in which Lucretius discusses the mystery of life with the marvellous clarity of genius. Although he was not a physician, his famous work contains many advanced statements about anatomy and physiology, diet and hygiene, and the effect of climate; the sixth book gives the celebrated account of the Plague of Athens'. £255 £190 |
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