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LUYS, Jules-Bernard.

Recherches sur le système nerveux cérébro-spinal. Sa structure, ses fonctions et ses maladies.

Paris: J.B. Bailliere et Fils, 1865.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #003493

Two volumes. 8vo (237 x 152 mm). Text vol.: xv [1], 660 pp. Atlas vol.: [4], 80 pp, 40 lithographic plates. Uniformly bound in contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards, gilt lettered and ruled on spine, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges (spine of plate vol. tanned, slightly rubbed and chipped at board edges). Text vol. with very little browning to outer margins, very minor occasional spotting, a few gatherings with light vertical crease, short closed tear at fore-margin of p.169/70; atlas vol. with light dust-soiling at foot of title, marginals of plates 7 and 23 slightly trimmed. Provenance: Zeitlin booksellers (book description on single sheet loosly inserted); James Tait Goodrich (bookplate tipped to front pastedowns). ----

Garrison-Morton 1402; Heirs of Hippocrates 1036; McHenry, Garrison's History of Neurology, p. 172; Haymaker, Founders of Neurology, pp. 55-58. RARE FIRST EDITION of Luys' first and most important book on his research studies of the nervous system in which he depicted the two structures which bear his name: the subthalamic nucleus and the centre médian of the thalamus.
Luys (1828-1897), chief of service at the Salpétrière and Charité in Paris, later director of the Maison de Santé Esquirol at Ivry-sur-Seine, found his metier in the problems of the structure and connections of the brain. "He was the first to portray the internal nuclei and tracts of the brain in three-dimensional visualizations. He was an excellent draughtsman, and his reconstructions were founded on carefully made drawings of sections through all parts of the brain." (Haymaker). - Visit our website to see more images!

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