General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine (Volume 1 Only) First Edition

Boston: Richardson and Lord, 1822. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket as Issued. Full brown leather binding with a burgundy slip and gilt lettering on the spine. 454pp. Front cover almost detached. Covers and spine rubbed. Front free endpaper is almost detached. Crease to middle of spine, as well as chipping to top and bottom. Previous owners' names written and stamped on first few pages (up to the title page). Some text blocks near the middle loosening and starting to detach (still holding). Text contains marks, underlining, doodles, and notes scattered throughout, in pencil. VG-, considering that it was published almost 200 years ago. Full refund if not satisfied. "Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (14 November 1771 – 22 July 1802) was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed. He was also 'the first to propose that tissue is a central element in human anatomy, and he considered organs as collections of often disparate tissues, rather than as entities in themselves.' Although Bichat was 'hardly known outside the French medical world' at the time of his early death, forty years later 'his system of histology and pathological anatomy had taken both the French and English medical worlds by storm.' The Bichatian tissue theory was 'largely instrumental in the rise to prominence of hospital doctors" as opposed to empiric therapy, as 'diseases were now defined in terms of specific lesions in various tissues, and this lent itself to a classification and a list of diagnoses.'" (Wikipedia)