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RAMÓN Y CAJAL, SANTIAGO. Les Nouvelles Idées sur la Structure du Système Nerveux chez l'Homme et chez les Vertèbres. 49 text illustrations. xvi, 300, [3] pages, including half-title and errata leaf. 8vo, 222x140 mm, contemporary 1/4 cloth, spine darkened, ends rubbed, leather lettering piece heavily worn; light marginal toning, small stain in lower inner corner of opening leaves, minor marginal soiling on half-title. Paris: C. Reinwald & Cie, 1894
first edition in french in book form of the enlarged version of a 1892 paper in Spanish summarizing his findings in support of the neuron doctrine. Ramón y Cajal established the histological basis of modern neuroscience, for which he shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi. Garrison-Morton 1287 note; Norman 1778 (original version in Spanish).
