Nouvelle fonction du foie considéré comme organe producteur de matière sucrée chez l’homme et les animaux.

EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION OF ONE OF THE MAJOR TEXTS BY THE CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN, father of experimental medicine, Claude Bernard (1813-1878). In it, he demonstrates the glycogenic function of the liver and establishes a pathogenic theory of diabetes mellitus. This is the commercial reprinting of the doctoral thesis in natural sciences that Bernard defended on March 17, 1853, under the direction of Professor Milne Edwards, and of which Martinet had printed a few rare copies a few months earlier under the title Researches on a New Function of the Liver...

Copy enhanced on the cover with a SIGNED AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION from Claude Bernard to the doctor of medicine, private professor of anatomy and operative medicine, Marie Philibert Constant Sappey (1810-1896).