Virchow's Archive für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin., Volume 27 in three parts, with papers by Friedreich, Gerhardt, and Kühne

Berlin: G. Reimer, 1863. Whole volume in three parts. Volume 27 (second series, seventh volume), Issues 1-6. 135 x 220mm. each. Original green printed wrappers. Mostly uncut and unopened. Issues are bound together in pairs. Other than slightly soiled wrappers on the first and third journals, some minor foxing on the plates and end papers, all three comprise a very good set.
Issues 1 + 2 : pp. 1-224, pll. i-vi.
Issues 3 + 4 : 225-432, pll. vii-ix.
Issues 5 + 6 : 433-578, pll. x-xi.
(1) Friedreich, Nikolaus (1825-1882). Ueber degenerative Atrophie der spinalen Hinterstränge. pp. 1-27. G.-M. 4696.
(2) Gerhardt, Carl Adolph Christian Jacob (1833-1902). Studien und Beobachtungen über Stimmbandlähmung, pp. 68-99. G-M. 3270.
(3) Kühne, Wilhelm Friedreich (1837-1900). Ueber die Endigung der Nerven in den Muskeln. pp. 508-532. (1) G-M. 4696 (Friedreich): Friedreich was the first to describe a form of ataxia ("Friedreich's ataxia"), hereditary, attended with impairment of speech, lateral curvature of the spine, and with paralysis of the muscles of the lower limbs. The titles of the last two papers vary.
(2) G.-M. 3270 (Gerhardt): An important study of paralysis of the vocal chords was made by Gerhardt. He diagnosed the growth in the larynx of Friedrich III, Emperor of Germany, whose eventual death from this condition was to have such disastrous effects on German history.
(3) See also G.-M.1270 (Kühne): Die Muskelspindeln. Ein Beitrage zur Lehrevon der Entwickelung der Muskeln und Nervenfasem, same journal, 28, 528-38 (1863). The best early description of proprioceptive receptors in muscles. (Garrison-Morton.com).