Title: Physiological Researches on Life and Death
Author: Xavier Bichat
Publisher: Richardson and LordCity: BostonYear: 1827Binding Style: Hardcover Pagination: 334 pages
Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: Hardcover; rebound in brown library cloth with leather label on spine. Translated from the French by F. Gold; Notes translated by George Hayward. Slight foxing. Embossed stamp of the Philadelphia Presbyterian Hospital on the title page. Subsequent owner's stamps and names present. Originally published in French (1800); first English translation in 1809. Bichat's "famous RECHERCHES SUR LA VIE ET SUR LA MORT dealt a death blow to old iatromechanical and iatrochemical views. His celebrated definition may be quoted: '...Life is the sum of the vital properties that withstand the physical properties, or, life is the sum of the functions that withstand death.'" (Osler, 1922)
