Recherches Physiologiques sur La Vie et La Mort [with:] De la Division la Plus Naturelle des Phenomenes Physiologiques, par F.-R. Buisson [with:] Experiences sur le Principe de la Vie... par C. Legallois.
1855 · Paris
by Bichat, X. [Marie Francois Xavier].
Paris: Adolphe Delahays, 1855. Octavo, calf & patterned boards (hardcover), double-columned, vii, 406 pp. Bichat famously defined life as “those set of Functions which resist death.” His career is recounted in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Very Good. (Inventory #: 4213bd)