Publisher:
Princeton, Princeton University Press : 1915
Seller ID: 1233
EMERGING QUESTIONS ON GENETICS, EUGENICS, AND SOCIETY IN MONOGRAPH BY LEADING BIOLOGIST E. G. CONKLIN, INSCRIBED TO MRS. CONEY AND SOLD AT LEGENDARY NEW YORK BOOKSHOP OWNED BY WOMEN. 8 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, bookseller's label, The Sunwise Turn, Inc., 2 E 31st St NY bottom of back paste down. Inscribed front free endpaper, My dear Mrw. Coney, You are a brave woman to have tackled such a book as this. I assure you that the first 429 pages are the worst. hoping that you will enjoy the rest of it, I am Cordially your friend, E. G. Conk... View More...
SIGNED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPER OF THE BIRTH CONTROL PILL. 9 1/2 inches tall beige paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, signed and dated by Djerassi on title page (1/27/93), fine/fine. Cited by Pickover in The Medical Book: 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine (2009): In the 1930s, researchers had determined thiat high concentrafions of the hormone progesterone, which is normally present during pregnancy, also tricks a nonpregnant body into behaving as if it were pregnant and thus prevent the monthly release of an egg. In the early 1950s, American chemists Carl Djerassi and Frank Go... View More...
1936-1958 SIX SCARCE LANDMARK PAPERS BY PIONEERING PITTSBURGH PHYSIOLOGIST DAVENPORT HOOKER, WHO RECORDED HUMAN FETAL REFLEX RESPONSES TO STIMULATION. Six offprints stapled in original wraps, documenting key discoveries in the fetal development of neuromuscular reflexes by pioneering anatomist and neurophysiologist Davenport Hooker. 1) Early fetal activity in mammals. Yale J Biol Med 8: (6) 579-602, July, 1936 [cover with ragged edges, text with 1 cm closed edge tear, otherwise very good]; 20 The origin of the grasping movement in man. Proc Am Philos Soc 79: (4) 597-606, November, 1938 [very g... View More...
