General Anatomy, applied to physiology and medicine

Boston: Richardson and Lord, 1822. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and recased. A fine set. First English edition of this text that “revolutionized descriptive anatomy [and that] … marks the beginning of modern histology” (G-M). Relying on verbal descriptions rather than illustrations, Bichat addresses individual tissues within the organs, while his contemporaries typically wrote on whole organs alone. He worked mostly without microscope technology but was able to isolate 21 different types of tissues.

Bichat (1771-1802) was French pathologist and anatomist. He is remembered for bridging the gap between organ pathology and cell pathology.

Garrison-Morton, 403.