Dyspepsie Et Consomption : Ressources Que La Poudre Nutrimentive, Pepsine AcidifiéE, Offre Dans Ces Cas à La MéDecine Pratique; Ou, De La Dyspepsie Par Vices SéCréToire, Musculaire Et Sensitif De L'estomac . Lucien Corvisart

In-8° broché, 76 pp. Corvisart, the nephew of Jean Nicolas Corvisart des Marest, devoted a good portion of his career to the physiology of digestion, performing important research on the pancreas (see Garrison-Morton 1001) and publishing several works in the mid-19th century on various aspects of digestion and nutrition. He may have intended his Histoire generale de la digestion to be his crowning work in this field: written some time after the publication of his Collection de memoires sur une fonction peu connue du pancreas (1857-63), it tackles the entire history of digestion physiology from ancient times to his own era, and presents a detailed study of the function and purpose of the entire digestive and nutritional system from the stomach to the large intestine, with particular emphasis on the pancreas. When we checked OCLC showed no works by Corvisart published after the Collection de memoires, so that our set of corrected proofs represents what may be the only written evidence of Corvisart's scientific work after 1863. Hirsch