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VIRCHOW, RUDOLF. CELLULAR PATHOLOGY AS BASED UPON PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL HISTOLOGY. Twenty Lectures Delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the Months of February, March, and April, 1858.
London: John Churchill..., 1860. 8vo, xxviii, 511pp, 144 text illus. Orig. forest green pebbled cloth, blocked in blind (expertly rebacked to style, corners repaired), spine lettered in gilt. Lib. stamp verso title, a few discreet old ink notations. A very good, clean copy. ¶ First English edition of Virchow's main contribution to biological thought and 'one of the most important books in the history of medicine and the foundation stone of cellular pathology' (Garrison & Morton). In this ground-breaking work Virchow shows the relations of pathology and medicine to the cell doctrine, and the intimate changes in the tissues and organs. No one before Virchow expressed the belief that the phenomena of disease, like other biologic phenomena, are the expressions of cellular activity. 'He analysed disease and diseased tissues from the point of view of cell-formation and cell-structure, much as Kölliker had analysed normal tissues. There are departments of pathology that Virchow explored so well that they have hardly been extended since his day. He set in motion the now familiar ideas that the body may be regarded 'as a state in which every cell is a citizen.' Disease is a civil war, 'a conflict of citizens brought about by the action of external forces'' (Singer, History of biology, p.344). Cf. Dibner 132; G-M 2299; Heirs of Hippocrates 1013; Horblit 99; Norman Library 2156; Osler 1624; PMM 307c; Waller 9996.
Offered for US$ 2000.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 5460.