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Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer Begründung auf physiologische und pathologische Gewebelehre Zwanzig Vorlesungen gehalten während der Monate Februar, März und April 1858 in Pathologischen Institute zu Berlin, von Rudolf Virchow.
Berlin: Verlag von August Hirschwald,1858. 8vo (221 x 138 mm). 144 wood-engraved illustrations, one full-page, several white-on-black. Contemporary green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in five compartments with raised bands, the bands flanked by rules in gilt and blind, lettered in the second compartment, decorative tooling to head and foot of spine, comb-marbled endpapers. Condition : blank margins browned; corners bumped, spine scuffed at head and foot. first edition of "one of the most important books in the history of medicine" (garrison-morton-norman), in which virchow essentially founded the discipline of cellular pathology . In this work, an almost verbatim reprint of the series of twenty lectures he gave in March and April 1858 at the Pathology Institute in Berlin, Virchow "advanced the notion that the body is a co-operative state in which every cell is a citizen and in which disease is a civil war brought on by action of external forces" (Dibner Heralds of Science 132). Virchow succeeded in showing that all diseases could be explained as a series of alterations and disturbances occurring at the cellular level. Dibner Heralds of Science 132; Garrison-Morton-Norman 2299; Grolier/Horblit 99; Grolier Medicine 69; Heirs of Hippocrates 1892; Norman 2156; Osler 1624; PMM 307c; Waller 9996.