Liber de Osse Cribriformi, et Sensu Organo Odoratus, et Morbis ad utrumque spectantibus, de Coryzâ, Haemorrhagia Narium, Polypo, Sternutatione, Amissione Odoratus.
by SCHNEIDER (Konrad Victor)
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Wittebergae, Typis Jobi Wilhelmi Finceli, Impensis Heraed. D. Tobiae Mevii, et Elardi Schumacher, 1655. 16mo. 9 leaves. 531 pages. (i.e. 533). Contemporary full calf, ornamented gilt spine (slightly restored). First Edition, very rare, of this work of great importance in the history of the physiology of smell's study. The discoverer of the pituitary mucosa (also called "Schneider's membrane") which covers the nasal cavity and contains the cells responsibles for the sense of smell, Konrad-Victor Schneider (1610-1680) redacted the present work after performing experiments on cows, dogs and geese, in order to locate the origin of the olfactory sense. He demonstrated in particular that nasal cavities are separated from the brain mass and that secretions are produced by their vascular tissue and not by the flow of cerebrospinal fluid. Paper uniformly browned, as always. A very good copy probably bound in France by a contemporary binder. Garrison-Morton, 1452: "'Schneider's membrane', the pituitary membrane of the nasal chamber and sinuses". Dobson, Antomical Eponyms, p.186.
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- Liber de Osse Cribriformi, et Sensu Organo Odoratus, et Morbis ad utrumque spectantibus, de Coryzâ, Haemorrhagia Narium, Polypo, Sternutatione, Amissione Odoratus.
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- SCHNEIDER (Konrad Victor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Keywords
- Anatomie-Ostéologie;Physiologie;Précurseurs;MEDECINE;
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