BERNARD, Claude.    1.SUR UNE NOUVELLE FONCTION DU FOIE CHEZ L'HOMME ET LES ANIMAUX 

                        and, 2. RECHERCHES SUR LE CURARE  Two separate papers In Computes Rendus Des Séances de L'Académie des Sciences, Volume XXXI, Décembre 1850, pp. 571-574 and pp. 533-537. Paris: Bachelier, Imprimeur - Libraire, 1850. Offered is entire vol. XXXI in quarter cloth binding with marbled covers and marbled endpapers. Condition is Very Good+ with mild cover edge wear, mild foxing first few pages and last few pages. 4to.   Hardcover. Very Good+.

The paper on the function of the liver is Dibner Heralds of Science No. 131 "...announcement is made that the liver builds up certain highly complex substances, including glycogen, from the nutriments brought to it by the blood and that these are subsequently modified for distribution to the body, as required".

The paper on curare notes that the substance somehow isolated the contractile property of the muscle from the motor property of the nerve. (DSB Vol. 2, Page 31).