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Mothers, Babies, and Disease in Later Life

By: Barker, D.J.P.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, BMJ Publishing Group: 1994

Seller ID: 877

1994 FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH BY DAVID BARKER TRACING HIS PATH TO GENERATING THE BARKER HYPOTHESIS--THE DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, color printed laminated covers, viii, 180 pp, illustrated, fine (no dust jacket as issued). DAVID JAMES PURSLOVE BARKER (1938 - 2013) was an English physician and epidemiologist and originator of the Barker Hypothesis that fetal and early infant conditions have a permanent conditioning effect on the body's metabolism and chronic conditions later in life. Barker was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society an...
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Energy Transformations During Horizontal Walking

By: Benedict FG;Murschhauser H;

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington, D.D., Carnegie Institution: 1915

Seller ID: 215

1915 METABOLIC INVESTIGATION ON WALKING 100 YEARS BEFORE THE FITBIT. 10 1/4 inches hardcover, green cloth binding with gilt title to cover and spine, 100 pages, figures of apparatus, kymograph tracing, graphs and tables. spine darkened, institutional library handstamp to front endpaper, otherwise unmarked and very good. INTRODUCTION. 'A certain amount of walking on a level inevitably forms a part of the daily routine of nearly every living person, for even those who are designated as sedentary in their habits do a not inconsiderable amount of walking in the house or in short distances upon the...
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Metabolism and Growth from Birth to Puberty

By: Benedict FG;Talbot FB;

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington D.C., Carnegie Institution: 1921

Seller ID: 216

BENEDICT'S EARLY METABOLIC STUDIES OF CHILDREN IN THE BOSTON NUTRITION LABORATORY. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, brown buckram binding, original paper cover bound at end, vi, 214 pages, photographic plate of infant respiration apparatus as used at the Directory for Wet-Nurses, and Respiration apparatus as used for children at the New England Home for Little Wanderers, many tables and graphs. Library binding, soiled covers, bookplates to front paste-down, library handstamp to endpapers, text unmarked, good+. FRANCIS GANO BENEDICT (1870 - 1957) was an American chemist, physiologist, and nutritio...
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Lipogensis in the Animal Body, with Special Reference to the Physiology of the Goose

By: Benedict, Francis G. and Lee, Robert C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution: 1937

Seller ID: 677

1937 EARLY METABOLIC STUDY OF CONVERSION OF CARBOHYDRATE TO BODY FAT IN THE GOOSE. 10 inches tall softbound volume, printed gray paper covers, paper library label bottom of spine, institutional library handstamp to title page, ix, 232 pp, spine slightly cocked, covers soiled, binding tight, text unmarked, good only. FRANCIG G. BENEDICT (1870 - 1957) was an American chemist, physiologist, and nutritionist who developed a calorimeter and a spirometer used to determine oxygen consumption and measure metabolic rate. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Benedict attended Harvard University, earning his ba...
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Human Vitality and Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet

By: Benedict, Francis G., Miles, Walter R., Roth, Paul and Smith, H. Monmouth

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington: 1919

Seller ID: 696

1919 MASSIVE REPORT OF ILLUSTRATED WORLD WARD I CLINICAL RESEARCH STUDY OF SEVERE PROTEIN RESTRICTION BY FRANCIS BENEDICT AND HIS FAMOUS BOSTON NUTRITION LABORATORY.10 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches thick paperbound book with printed title to cover and spine, frontis photograph of Diet and Control Squads and Investigators, International Young Men's Christian Association College, Springfield, Massachusetts, January 11, 1918, institutional library handstamp to title page with deaccession cancel, xi, 701 pp, 124 illustrations. Abrasion lower spine from removal of small library label, archival tape rei...
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Lecons sur le Diabete et la Glycogenese Animale

By: Bernard, Claude

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Paris, J.-B. Bailliere et Fils: 1877

Seller ID: 647

1877 FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK MONOGRAPH ON DIABETES BY CLAUDE BERNARD, DEAN OF FRENCH PHYSIOLOGY. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binding, marbled paper covers, gilt title to spine, previous owner signature top of title page, viii, 576 pp. Corners bumped, spine ends worn, lower edge of cover paper chipped, lacking half-title, light foxing to front and back pages, circular ink stain pp 440-441, some pages dog-eared. A good copy of the first edition of an important book in the history of diabetes. GARRISON-MORTON No 3942. CLAUDE BERNARD (1813 â€“ 1878) was a French physiologist. H...
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Comparative Anatomy and Pharmacology of the Pituitary Gland

By: Geiling, Eugene M.K.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Iowa City, State University of Iowa: 1940

Seller ID: 693

1940 SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF LECTURE BY EMK GEILING, FIRST CHAIR OF PHARMACOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND PIONEER INVESTIGATOR OF PITUITARY FUNCTION. 9 inches tall pamphlet, printed paper covers, stapled, 28 pages, with black & white illustrations, inscribed top of cover, To Dr. Wm Bloom/ with the author's compliments,/ E.M.K. Geiling. Age-toned but otherwise very good. EUGENE M.K. GEILING (1891 - 1971) was born in South Africa,and earned his Ph.D. in physiological chemistry in 1917 from the University of Illinois. In 1921, he became a research assistant in the Department of Pharmac...
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Bumblebee Economics

By: Heinrich, Bernd

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press: 1979

Seller ID: 870

CLASSIC FIELD STUDY OF BIOENERGETICS OF THE BUMBLEBEE AND ITS ABILITY TO REGULATE BODY TEMPERETURE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, orange cloth binding, gilt image of bumblebee to cover, viii, 245 pp, double-page color plate of bumblebees of North and Central America; near-fine in near-fine dust jacket. BERND HEINRICH (born 1940) is a professor emeritus in the biology department at the University of Vermont and is the author of a number of books about nature writing and biology. Heinrich has made major contributions to the study of insect physiology and behavior, as well as bird behavior. In ad...
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Investigations Chemical and Physiological, relative to certain American Vertebrata

By: Jones, Joseph

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution: 1856

Seller ID: 712

1856 SOUTHERN PHYSICIAN'S STUDIES OF COMPARATIVE VERTEBRATE PHYSIOLOGY AND METABOLISM ILLUSTRATED BY FINE WOOD ENGRAVINGS. 13 inches tall volume, printed paper covers, xi, 137 pp, 31 tables, 27 very fine wood engravings. Covers darkened, edges chipped, small pen drawing bottom front cover, archival tape repair of backstrip, text unmarked and very good. CONTENTS: Method employed in analyzing the blood; Blood of vertebrate animals in its normal condition; Physical and chemical changes of the solids and fluids of animals when deprived of food and drink; Effects of starvation and thirst, combined ...
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Energy transformations in living matter. A survey

By: Krebs, H.A. and Kornberg, H.L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berlin, Springer-Verlag: 1957

Seller ID: 700

1957 EARLY REVIEW OF LANDMARK DISCOVERIES IN METABOLISM BY ITS PIONEERS, KREBS AND KORNBERG. 9 3/4 inches tall offprint, printed paper covers, pagination 212-298, 20 figures, 13 tables; light wear to covers, spotting to back cover, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good. HANS A. KREBS (1900 - 1981) was a German-born British biologist, physician and biochemist. He was a pioneer scientist in the study of cellular respiration, a biochemical process in living cells that extracts energy from food and oxygen and makes it available to drive the processes of life. He is best known for his discoverie...
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Metabolic Care of the Surgical Patient

By: Moore, Francis D.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, Co.: 1964

Seller ID: 790

LANDMARK 1000-PAGE MONOGRAPH ON METABOLIC CARE OF THE SURGICAL PATIENT BY LEGENDARY SURGEON-IN-CHIEF OF BRIGHAM HOSPITAL. 11 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, printed title to cover, gilt title to spine, x, 1011 pp, 143 figures, corners bumped, covers and text unmarked, binding tight, very good. FRANCIS D. MOORE (1913 - 2001) beginning in 1948, Dr. Moore was a professor of surgery at Harvard and the surgeon in chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Under his stewardship, the hospital's surgical department became a leader in organ transplantation. In 1954, a surgi...
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Chemical Embryology

By: Needham, Joseph

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1931

Seller ID: 775

1931 MONUMENTAL 3-VOLUME, 2000-PAGE MONOGRAPH BY POLYMATH JOSEPH NEEDHAM ESTABLISHED THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF CHEMICAL EMBRYOLOGY. 3 hardcover volumes 9 1/4 inches tall, publidher's black cloth binding, gilt titles to spines, bookplate of previous physician owner to front paste-down of each volume, Vol. I frontis portrait of William Harvey with tissue guard, xxi, pp 1-613, 10 plates; Vol. II, frontis of Harvey's Generatione Animalium, xvi, pp 615-1254, 2 plates; Vol. III, frontis of Buffon at the dissecting table, xvi, pp 1255-2010; 532 figures and many tables (some folding) throughout the te...
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The Physiology and Pathology of Exposure to Stress, a Treatise Based on the Concepts of the General-Adaptation-Syndrome and the Diseases of Adaptation

By: Selye, Hans

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Montreal, Acta, Inc.: 1950

Seller ID: 801

1000-PAGE EXPOSITION: HANS SELYE'S MAGISTERIAL TREATISE ON STRESS IN PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASE. 10 inches tall 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, xx, 822 pp, 203 pp references, illustrations. Covers slightly bowed, light wear to edges, hinges starting, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, good+. HANS SELYE (1907 - 1982) was a pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist. He conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors. He became a Doctor of Medicine and Chemistry in Prague in 1929 and wen...
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