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RAMÓN Y CAJAL, SANTIAGO. Histologie du Système Nerveux de l'Homme & des Vertèbres. French translation by Léon Azoulay. 1025 text illustrations. [iii]-xiv, 986; [2], 993, [5] pages, including half-title in second volume, lacking in the first. 2 volumes bound in 4. 4to, 261x168 mm, early 20th century buckram, rubbed; marginal browning throughout, upper outer corner torn off titles affecting one letter on first title. Bookplate of the neuroanatomist Fred A. Mettler, his name gilt-stamped at foot of spines. Paris: A. Maloine, 1909
first edition in french of the author's 1899-1904 Textura del Sistema Nervioso. "This monumental work sets out the cytological and histological foundations of modern neurology. Ramón y Cajal's research confirmed the neuron doctrine; his classification of neurons provided a histological basis for cerebral localization. His descriptions of the cerebral cortex are still the most authoritative" (Garrison-Morton). He shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology with Camillo Golgi. Garrison-Morton 1293.1 (original edition).
