GOLGI, CAMILLO.

Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervoso.

A cura di A.Oliverio. Pubbl.dell'Ist.e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze. Firenze, 1995, Giunti Biblioteca della Scienza Itali cm.17x24, pp.264, num.figg.bn.nt. br.soprac.

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Book number: 44297

Catalogue: Scienze

GOLGI, CAMILLO (1843-1926),

Untersuchungen uber den feineren Bau des centralen und peripherischen Nervensystems. (TEXT ONLY).

Aus dem Italienischen ubersetzt von Dr. R. Teuscher. Mit einem Atlas von 30 Tafeln und 2 Figuren im Text. Translation of Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervoso (Milan 1886). Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1894. 1st Edition in German. [viii]+272pp + 2 text figures. Large 4to. Contemporary brown cloth-backed marbled boards with gilt spine lettering and leather corners. Corners quite worn and chipped, boards edgeworn and rubbed, 2cm defective from title-page corner, a small marginal edge tear to title-page, 7 numbers inked to verso of title page, slightly acidic but stable with bright white endpages; about a good to VG copy. Text only without the wonderfull atlas of 30 lithographic plates. Very scarce. The book that secured Golgi's international reputation, since it made his work accessible to a wide audience outside Italy, though translations of several of his papers had appeared as early as 1883 in the Alienist and Neurologist and in French the same year. "Golgi's histological studies made a clear conception of the nervous system possible for the first time. He demonstrated the existence of multipolar nerve-cells (Golgi cells) by means of his silver nitrate stain, and described the "Golgi apparatus" and "Golgi type II" nerve cells -- cells with short axons ramified within the cortex. In 1906 he shared the Nobel Prize with Ramon y Cajal" [GM-5 #1416, citing the 1886 Italian edition]. Haymaker Founders of Neurology, pp. 35-39; McHenry, pp. 161-64; DSB V: 459-61; Kolle Grosse Nervenarzte II: 3-12; Corsi The Enchanted Loom, pp. 240-41; Meyer Historical Aspects of Cerebral Anatomy pp. 79-82; Shepherd Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine" pp. 79-101; Clarke & O'Malley The Human Brain and Spinal Cord 2nd ed. pp. 90-96. Weight: 4 pounds 2.2 ounces = 1.9 kg. Size: 14.0 x 11.0 x 1.0 inches = 35 x 27.5 x 2.5cm. Binding: HB.

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Book number: 091072

Catalogue: Neuroscience/Neurology

Keywords: German