1878
Leçons sur les phénomènes de la vie communs aux animaux et aux végétaux
- Published
- 1878
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- Described, not held
- Rights
- Public domain; no clean scan resolved yet.
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- Proposed by the nightly run and confirmed in a catalogue
Held works treat this 1878 lecture course as a founding text of general physiology. Baluška and Levin say it reported Bernard's anesthesia experiments on plants: Mimosa stopped responding under ether, which led him to conclude that plants and animals share a common life principle that anesthetics disrupt. Verworn calls it the first comprehensive treatment of the field and praises its classic, if uneven, handling of general questions about life. Bayliss and Osterhout cite it for specific passages, and Bernard's translator quotes it on the organic harmony of living beings.
He showed that the Mimosa plant (Mimosa pudica), closing leaves upon touch, was unresponsive when exposed to a diethyl ether atmosphere which immobilized mice.
Baluška F, Levin M, 2016 · On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems · open at passage 30
Claude Bernard arrived at the conclusion that plants and animals share a common biological principle that is disrupted by anesthetics.
Baluška F, Levin M, 2016 · On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems · open at passage 30
which treated a number of general questions concerning life in a classic manner, although somewhat unequally.
Verworn, M., 1899 · General Physiology: An Outline of the Science of Life · open at passage 85