Marey, Étienne Jules (1830-1904)

L'Inscription des phénomènes phonétiques. Author's holograph MS. Produced in Paris.

c. 1895

1 volume 66 [74] ff. 8vo. 21 × 15 1/2 cm. Unbound. Though the last leaf is numbered 66, there are actually 74 leaves.

Purchased 1934.

The author was a distinguished experimental physiologist. After taking his M.D. is Paris in 1859, he invented the sphygmograph in 1860, and was elected Member of the Académie de Médecine in 1872, and of the Académie des Sciences in 1878. From 1867 to 1904 he was Professeur d'Historie Naturelle des Corps Organisés as successor to Marc Jean Pierre Flourens [1794-1867] at the Collège de France.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).