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276 - Digestion.- Biology.- Bernard (Claude) "Mémoire sur le Pancréas et sur le Role du suc Pancréatique dans les Phénomènes Digestifs", in Supplément aux Comptes Rendus, vol.1, first edition, pp.379-563,Â5 folding stipple-engraved plates, of which 3 hand-coloured aquatints, light spotting,Âex-library copy with ink-stamps to preliminary text ff., 20th-century morocco-backed boards, spine sunned and with paper label and glue stains, a little rubbed, 4to,ÂParis, 1856.
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Digestion.- Biology.- Bernard (Claude) "Mémoire sur le Pancréas et sur le Role du suc Pancréatique dans les Phénomènes Digestifs", in Supplément aux Comptes Rendus, vol.1, first edition, pp.379-563,Â5 folding stipple-engraved plates, of which 3 hand-coloured aquatints, light spotting,Âex-library copy with ink-stamps to preliminary text ff., 20th-century morocco-backed boards, spine sunned and with paper label and glue stains, a little rubbed, 4to,ÂParis, 1856. *** First edition of Bernard's most beautifully illustrated seminal work on the role of the pancreas. The work represents the final and most complete statement of Bernard's discoveries concerning the pancreas.Â"In 1846ÂBernardÂbegan studying the pancreatic juices and their role in digestion … By observing the processes of digestion in dogs and rabbits, and by experimentation with pure pancreatic juices collected from temporary pancreatic fistulae,ÂBernardÂwas able to show that pancreatic juices made fats absorbable by breaking them down into fatty acids and glycerine" (Grolier Medicine).
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