Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort / par M.F.X. Bichat. Précédés d'une notice sur la vie et les travaux de Bichat ... par le Docteur Cerise.

  • Bichat, Xavier, 1771-1802.
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1844

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xxxv, 391 pages ; 19 cm

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Bichat examined what happens in sudden death. Bichat describes his experiments on the freshly killed bodies of those guillotined during the French Revolution and demonstrated cardiac excitation by electricity that could occur only when the organ was stimulated by direct contact. He concentrated on the role of the brain, the heart, and the lungs

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