BERNARD, Claude.

Nouvelle Fonction du Foie, consideré comme organe producteur de matière sucrée chez l'homme et les animaux.

Paris, J.-B. Baillière, 1853. 4to, pp. 92, [1], with one wood-engraved illustration in the text; slightly foxed, but a good copy; UNCUT in the original grey-green printed wrappers; spine weak; INSCRIBED on the upper wrapper 'Monsieur Mignet/de l'Académie Française/ de l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques/ &c &c/ homage de l'auteur/ Cl. Bernard.' THE VERY SCARCE FIRST MONOGRAPH PUBLICATION, it having appeared as a thesis earlier in the same year, of Bernard's 'remarkable exposition of the glycogenic function of the liver' (Horblit). This treatise, 'which Bernard used to obtain his doctorate in science, disproved two current theories of animal metabolism: first that animals cannot synthesize sugar; and second, that sugar in the blood only occurs in diabetic or otherwise unhealthy animals' (Norman Catalogue).Bernard had no great academic success; he was an 'average student' according to DSB. Although he graduated M.D. in 1843, further Academic honours were slow to come to him, and indeed his application for membership of the Académie des Sciences in 1850 was unsuccessful until it was gained with this treatise. The recipient of this copy was the distinguished historian Francois-Auguste Mignet (1796-1884).Grolier Medicine 67A; Horblit 11a; Norman 200.

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