Sechenov, Ivan Mikhailovich.

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Description

Fiziologiya nervnoi sistemy [Physiology of the nervous system]. St Petersburg, 1866, first edition, 2 parts in one volume, 8vo (214 x 142mm.), one folding plate, illustrations, contemporary calf-backed boards, some light spotting, binding slightly rubbed

Ibid. Kurs' fiziologii cheloveka i zhivotnykh' [A course on human and animal physiology]. St Petersburg, 1887, first edition, 8vo (241 x 152mm.), 4 folding plates, some pencil markings in margins, contemporary calf-backed boards, binding rubbed at edges, hinges split

Mechnikov, Ilia Ilich. Nevospriimchivost' v' infektsionnykh' boleznyakh' [Immunity in infectious diseases]. St Petersburg, 1903, first edition in russian, 8vo (237 x 157mm.), illustrations in text (some coloured), contemporary morocco-backed boards, stamp and inscription (Vl. Lindenbrg', 27/IX) on title-page, hinges split, binding slightly rubbed

together 3 volumes

Literature

DSB XII, p. 270 & IX, p. 334

Catalogue Note

Sechenov's theory of cerebral behaviour mechanisms, according to which all conscious and unconscious acts are reflexes in terms of their structures, formed the basis for the later work of Pavlov and Bekhterev.

In 1908 Mechnikov was the joint winner with Paul Ehrlich of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Having been director of the Bacteriological Institute in Odessa from 1886 to 1887, he was invited in 1888 to go to Paris by Louis Pasteur, who gave him a laboratory where he worked for the last twenty-eight years of his life. The present work, a comprehensive survey of comparative and human immunology, as well as a defence of the theory of phagocystosis, was first published in French in 1901.