sketches of these doctrines were given by him in three papers contained in the "memoirs of the société médicale d'émulation", which he founded in 1796, and they were afterwards more fully developed in his "traité sur les membranes" (treatise on membranes, 1799). his next publication was the "recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort" (general anatomy applied to physiology and medicine, 1800), and it was quickly followed by his "anatomie générale" (1801), the work which contains the fruits of his most profound and original researches. he began another work, under the title "anatomic descriptive" (1801–1803), in which the organs were arranged according to his peculiar classification of their functions but lived to publish only the first two volumes.