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excited by interior stimuli arising from organic malfunction, lingering mental
images, or the play of the imagination. He himself found it easy to make
luminous images of people and things appear suddenly, move about, and
disappear whenever he closed his eyes and concentrated on his darkened Weld
of vision... Müller demonstratred that optical perceptions can arise without an
adequate external stimulus... the result – depending on the situation – is the
reporting of religious or magical visions, or the seeing of ghosts.’ (Johannes
Steudel, DSB 9: 570a)
Steudel is clear that this was Müller’s second work, conWrmed by the preface
dated September 1826, while the preface of Zur vergleichenden Physiologie (see
above) was dated Autumn 1825. However, Albert, Norton and Huertes place
it Wrst; perhaps also assuming that it came Wrst. It was included in Horblit’s
list, rather than the earlier work which introduced the concept of speciWc
nerve energies.
This copy is from the collection of Pagel’s contemporary, Edgar Goldschmid,
whose collection on the evolution of anatomical illustration was purchased
by the university of Wisconsin, Madison in 1958.
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MÜLLER, Johannes Peter (1801–1858)
Über ein eigenthümliches, dem Nervus sympathicus analoges
Nervensystem der Eingeweide bei den Insecten.
Nuremberg, 1827.
4to, pp. 38.
3 engraved plates by W. Engels after the author numbered VII–XIX.
261 x 203mm. Text foxed, plates browned. Vertical creases in the pages.
Binding: Original thin blue glazed boards. Spine frayed, creased vertically.
Provenance: Signed presentation inscription from the author to Dr J.
H. Weber (1795–1878) on pastedown.
OVprint from Nova acta physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-
Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, 14 (1827) 73–108 and pls VII–XIX,
repaginated with the original pagination printed in parentheses.
An early neurological paper, a Weld to which Müller was to make major
contributions, in particular his famous conWrmation of the Bell–Magendie
law in 1831.
This copy was presented to Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878), professor
of anatomy and physiology at Leipzig and the founder of experimental
psychology.
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MÜLLER, Johannes Peter (1801–1858)
Bildungsgeschichte der Genitalien aus anatomischen
untersuchungen an Embryonen des Menschen und der Thiere, nebst
eniem Anhang über die chirurgische Behandlung der Hypospadia.
Düsseldorf: bei Arnz, 1830.