MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628-1694). Tetras anatomicarum epistolarum de lingua, et cerebro ... quibus anonymi accessit exercitatio de omento, pinguedine, & adiposis ductibus . Bologna: Vittorio Benazio, 1665. 12 o (126 x 70 mm). 2 (of 3) folding engraved plates (the third plate supplied in facsimile). (Some staining to title and preliminaries.) Contemporary vellum (some chipping and wear). Provenance : some early marginalia. FIRST EDITION of Malpighi's second work, which is composed of letters addressed to his colleagues Carlo Fracassato and Giovanni Borelli, followed by Fracassato's commentary. In De lingua , Malphigi reported peeling two layers from the surface of the tongue and thereby exposing the papillary body, in which he distinguished three orders of papillae (or sensory receptors), and speculated that these could be stimulated by "sapid" particles dissolved in the saliva. His treatise entitled De cerebro deals with the white substance of the central nervous system, which Malpighi discovered to be composed of the same fibers that form the nerves. Osler 989; Waller 6207; Norman 1426.
MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628-1694). Tetras anatomicarum epistolarum de lingua, et cerebro ... quibus anonymi accessit exercitatio de omento, pinguedine, & adiposis ductibus . Bologna: Vittorio Benazio, 1665. 12 o (126 x 70 mm). 2 (of 3) folding engraved plates (the third plate supplied in facsimile). (Some staining to title and preliminaries.) Contemporary vellum (some chipping and wear). Provenance : some early marginalia. FIRST EDITION of Malpighi's second work, which is composed of letters addressed to his colleagues Carlo Fracassato and Giovanni Borelli, followed by Fracassato's commentary. In De lingua , Malphigi reported peeling two layers from the surface of the tongue and thereby exposing the papillary body, in which he distinguished three orders of papillae (or sensory receptors), and speculated that these could be stimulated by "sapid" particles dissolved in the saliva. His treatise entitled De cerebro deals with the white substance of the central nervous system, which Malpighi discovered to be composed of the same fibers that form the nerves. Osler 989; Waller 6207; Norman 1426.
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