Grand et fort in-8° relié demi-chagrin de l'époque, (3), 920pp. "Classical and Standard work in Neurology". (MacHenry) ---- "Vulpian's influence upon his many followers in several fields of knowledge made him the intellectual leader of his day. He had a profound and salutary effect upon neurological thought". (Haymaker p. 274) ---- "Vulpian received his medical training at Paris where he was a pupil of Flourens and followed him in the chair of comparative physiology at the Museum of Natural History in 1864. He succeeded Cruveilhier as chairman of the department of pathology at the Salpêtrière where he made extensive studies upon the action of various drugs on the nervous system and studied the principles of degeneration and regeneration in the nervous system. He was associated with Charcot at the Salpêtrière and Charcot credited Vulpian's work for his success in describing multiple sclerosis. Among other discoveries, Vulpian first showed that the adrenal cortex produces a substance later called adrenalin". (Heirs of Hippocrates). - - - "In 1862 [Vulpian] took over, with Charcot, that chaotic welfare institution for the chronically sick, known as the Salpetrière. Vulpian was more restrained and perhaps even more learned than his great friend [Charcot], and he was an experimenter. He worked out the principles of degeneration, and particularly the regeneration, of nerves; he established the principles and added many new facts concerning the vasomotor and sudmotor apparatus [in the work offered here], and he made them common knowledge. Vulpian's influence upon his many followers in several fields of knowledge made him the intellectual leader of his day" (Haymaker & Schiller, Founders of Neurology, pp. 272-74). Les leçons (37) qui composent cet ouvrage ont été faites pendant l'année 1864: elles ont été rédigées et publiées en partie par M. Ernest Brémond dans la Revue des cours scientifiques. L'auteur, cédant à de pressantes sollicitations de la part de ses auditeurs et des lecteurs de la Revue, s'est décidé à les réunir en un volume, en y ajoutant des développements qui n'avaient pas pu prendre place dans la publication primitive et qui ont presque doublé la quantité des matières. (Extrait de l'Avertissement).|Le docteur Vulpian, par ses recherches si nombreuses et si importantes sur le système nerveux, par son érudition, par son esprit de sévère critique, a pris parmi nos premiers physiologistes. (Larousse XIX°).
