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... View More...
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 – 1878) was a French physiologist. Histor... View More...
1922, 1923 LANDMARK PAPERS ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF VITAMIN E, A DIETARY FACTOR ESSENTIAL FOR REPRODUCTION. Two offprints 10 inches tall, printed paper covers, staple-bound, 1) 4 pp; 2) 8 pp; previous owner inscribed Evans top cover of each offprint, otherwise unmarked, corners bumped, light soiling to covers, very good minus. GARRISON-MORTON No. 1055 noting both papers. HERBERT McLEAN EVANS (1882 - 1971) became associate professor of anatomy at Johns Hopkins University, then moved to California in 1915 and was made professor of anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley, a position... View More...
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... View More...
1935 EARLY REVIEW OF VITAMIN METABOLISM BY PIONEER IN THE FIELD, LEADING TO THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 1929. 9 inches tall 9-page reprint extracted from Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1935, in archival mylar cover, unmarked and very good. SIR FREDERICK GOWLAND HOPKINS (1861 - 1947) was an English biochemist. In 1898, while attending a meeting of the Physiological Society, he was invited by Sir Michael Foster to join the Physiological Laboratory in Cambridge to investigate the chemical aspects of physiology. Biochemistry was not, at that time, recognised as a separate branch of science. ... View More...
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 ... View More...
Publisher:
London, Longmans, Green & Co., Ltd. : 1926
Seller ID: 1213
1926 FIRST EDITION OF SEMINAL MONOGRAPH ON INSULIN BY ITS DISCOVERER AND NOBEL LAUREATE. 9 inches tall hardcover, xii, 357 pages, original red cloth binding, printed title to cover, gilt title to spine, 8 photographic plates, numerous tables and graphs throughout. Corners lightly bumped, institutional library bookplate to front paste down, bar code on front flyleaf, canceled library handstamp bottom of title page, no external library markings, overall very good minus. JOHN JAMES RICHARD MACLEOD (1876 - 1935) was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in... View More...
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