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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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Recherches Anatomiques et Physiologiques sur le Developpement du Foetus et en Particulier sur lEvolution Enbryonnaire des Oiseaux et des Batraciens

By: Baudrimont, A. and Martin-Saint-Ange, G.J.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Paris, Imprimerie Nationale: 1850

Seller ID: 766

1850 FIRST EDITION OF PRIZEWINNING RESEARCH: THE DISCOVERY OF EMBRYONIC RESPIRATION, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE COLOR ENGRAVINGS. 11 inches tall hardcover,offprint from Memoires presentees par divers savants a l'Academie des Sciences. recent gray cloth binding and endpapers, 224 pp (pagination 469 to 692), 14 fine color stipple-engraved plates by Martin de St-Ange and 4 monchrome plates by Baudrimont. Covers are very good, with abrasion of the surface fore edge both front and back, paste-down not affected. Binding tight, pages clean and crisp with minimal light marginal foxing to plates, very goo...
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Lectures upon the Mechanism of Speech

By: Bell, Alexander Graham

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls Co.: 1906

Seller ID: 301

IMPORTANT MONOGRAPH BY ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ON THE TEACHING OF SPEECH TO THE DEAF. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, many illustrations throughout the text and 7 full page charts of phonetic profiles. Spine sunned, otherwise very good. Reviewed in Nature 75, 196 (27 December 1906): THIS interesting book consists of a series of lectures by Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, whose name in the future may be as honourably associated with his labours in the education of deaf mutes as with the invention of the telephone. His father, A. Melville Bell, ma...
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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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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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The Physiology and Pathology of Bed Rest

By: Browse, Norman L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas: 1965

Seller ID: 299

SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON THE EFFECTS OF BED REST ON EACH ORGAN SYSTEM: WHAT ARE ITS DANGERS AND BENEFITS? 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, black cloth boards, spine gilt, many black and white illustrations, fine/fine. NORMAN L. BROWSE, Kt MD FRCS FRCP, Professor of Surgery, Emeritus, University of London; Honorary Consulting Surgeon, St Thomas' Hospital, London; Past-President, Royal College of Surgeons of England, UK. Norman Browse was born in London in December 1931. Between 1962 and 1964 he worked as a Lecturer in Surgery at the Westminster Hospital were he studied the use of streptokinase in the tr...
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The Cerebral Cortex and the Internal Organs

By: Bykov, K. M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House: 1959

Seller ID: 971

1959 ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE LIFE'S WORK OF K. M. BYKOV, IVAN PAVLOV'S CLOSEST PUPIL: INVESTIGATION OF CONDITIONED REFLEXES BETWEEN CEREBRAL CORTEX AND GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY. 8 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, title to cover and spine, bookplate to front paste-down, 459 pp, illustrations. KONSTANTIN MIKHAILOVICH BYKOV (1886-1959) was Pavlov's closest pupil. On the basis of numerous experiments Bykov and his collaborators established bilateral connections between the cortex and the internal organs; on the one hand, it is a regulating influence of the cortex on the activity of the inte...
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Studies on the Physiology of the Middle Ear

By: Byrne, J. Grandson

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd.: 1938

Seller ID: 580

1938 COLLECTION OF PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED ILLUSTRATED PAPERS ON PHYSIOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAR. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, physician book plate to front paste-down, xi, 298 pp, 54 black & white figures. Light soiling to covers, corners bumped, spine darkened, binding tight, pages crisp and clean, very good. JOSEPH GRANDSON BYRNE, FROM THE PREFACE: The studies reported in this volume, were performed at Fordham University (Department of Biology), during a period extending over several years. They were originally intended for publication scientifi...
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The Way of an Investigator. A Scientist's Experiences in Medical Research

By: Cannon, Walter B.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Co.: 1945

Seller ID: 291

1945 SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF LANDMARK AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY WALTER CANNON, WHO DEFINED THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, stated first edition, A wartime book. This complete edition is produced in full compliance with the government's regulations for conserving paper and other essential materials. Light stain to upper right corner of front and back covers, dampstaining to edges of dust jacket, which has edge tears along top edge, pages are clean and unmarked. Overall good+. First printings of this wartime book, an autobiography published the year...
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Principles of Comparative Physiology

By: Carpenter, William B.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea: 1854

Seller ID: 741

1854 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF CARPENTER'S COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY THAT DEEPLY INFLUENCED CHARLES DARWIN'S INCORPORATION OF EMBRYOLOGY IN HIS THEORY OF EVOLUTION. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, full sheepskin binding, gilt title on black leather label to spine, xxxii, 752 pp, 309 wood engravings in text, 32 pp publisher's catalogue of medical and surgical books. Covers rubbed, top corner of publisher's catalogue creased, light pencil signature of previous owner to front free endpaper, binding tight and text unmarked, very good minus. WILLIAM BENJAMIN CARPENTER (1813 - 1885) was an English physici...
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A Preface to Nervous Disease

By: Cobb, Stanley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Baltimore, William Wood & Co.: 1936

Seller ID: 960

1936 INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN NEUROANATOMY, NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND NEUROPATHOLOGY BY THE FOUNDER OF BIOLOGICAL PHYCHIATRY IN THE UNITED STATES. 9 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, ix, 173 pp, tables and figures, spine dulled, physician handstamp front flyleaf, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good. STANLEY COBB (1887 - 1968) was a neurologist and could be considered the founder of biological psychiatry in the United States. Cobb earned his AB and MD at Harvard, and completed residency at Johns Hopkins. He joined the Harvard neurology faculty in 1919 and in 1922 he s...
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Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Disease. A Clinical and Physiological Study in Infants and Children

By: Cournand, Andre, Baldwin, Janet S. and Himmestein, A.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Commonwealth Fund: 1949

Seller ID: 317

SCARCE FIRST BOOK DEVOTED TO CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION BY NOBEL LAUREATE PIONEER IN THE FIELD. 11 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, many text figures. Ex-library, with small numbers bottom of spine, library pocket to front paste-down, text unmarked. Corners and spine ends worn, light soiling to covers, very good -. INTRODUCTION IN recent years the technique of right heart catheterization has been increasingly applied to the diagnosis of congenital malformations of the heart and large vessels. In 1945-46 Brannon, Weens, and Warren reported the use of this technique in the diagnos...
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Diethyl Ether. Its Effects in the Human Body

By: Dodd, Robert B. and Bunker, John P.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas: 1962

Seller ID: 557

1962 SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON PHARMACOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF ETHER ANESTHESIA AND ITS HISTORY. 9 inches tall flexible cover book, blace pebbled covers, gilt title to cover and spine, signature of Stanley Weitzner, Nov. 1963 on front endpaper, no other markings, 120 pp, very good. FROM THE PREFACE: "The purpose of this book is to have in one volume a guide to some of the more important or interesting literature on the effects of ether on the human body. The primary search was of the literature since World War II, but there are a number of papers cited that antedate that event. ... If, as some clinic...
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Human Physiology illustrated by engravings

By: Dunglison R;

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Carey, Lea and Blanchard: 1838

Seller ID: 170

1838 SCARCE 3RD EDITION OF DUNGLISON'S FAMOUS HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, FIRST TO CONTAIN FULL REFERENCES. Two volumes 9 inches tall full leather binding, 562, 619 pages, spines with gilt bands and gilt black leather labels, 197 wood engravings in text and 5 plates. Wear to covers, hinges solid, contemporary ink inscriptions front paste-down and endpaper of vol. 1, small library ticket to rear paste-down of each volume, scattered foxing throughout. Overall very good. From SAMUEL X. RADBILL, The Autobiographical Ana of Robley Dunglison, M.D., Trans. Am. Philo. Soc. 53 (8) 1963: Desirous of undertaking a...
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Human Physiology, illustrated by numerous engravings

By: Dunglison R;

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Carey and Lea: 1832

Seller ID: 231

1832 SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY BY ROBLEY DUNGLISON, FATHER OF AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGY. Two volume work, 9 inches tall hardcover, original full leather bindings, volume 1 with hinges reinforced, and volume 2 with recent leather spine expertly restored with gilt bands. Dedication 'To James Madison, Esq. ex-president of the United States, Rector of the University of Virginia, &c. &c. alike distinguished as an illustrious benefactor to his country, a zealous promoter of science and literature, and the friend of mankind; this work, intended to illustrate the functions executed by that be...
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The Physiology of Man; designed to represent the Existing State of physiological Science, as applied to the Functions of the Human Body

By: Flint A;

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.: 1874 1875

Seller ID: 221

1874 'THE MOST ELABORATE TREATISE UPON THE SUBJECT OF PHYSIOLOGY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE'. Five volumes, 9 inches tall hardcovers, original brown pebbled cloth boards, wood engravings in text, institutional bookplate front paste-down of each volume, of each volume, signature of J. C. Mackenzie, front endpapers. Corners bumped, spine ends frayed, white library numbers bottom of spines, text unmarked and very good. Vol. 1. Introduction, blood, circulation, respiration, 502 pp, publisher's advertisements; Vol. 2. Alimentation, digestion, absorption, lymph and chyle, 556 pp, publisher's ads; Vol. ...
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Vaso-Renal Change; or, Sixty Years' Further Study of the Pathological Process First Observed by Dr. Richard Bright, F.R.S.

By: Fothergill, J. Milner

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1887

Seller ID: 620

1887 SCARCE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON KIDNEY DISEASE BY BRITISH PHYSICIAN PROPOSING VASO-RENAL CHANGE IN PLACE OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title and library numbers to spine, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down (with discard handstamp), library card to back paste-down, xii, 219 pp, 19 illustrations (including 2 chromolithographs). Light wear to covers, 1/2 inch abrasion to bottom edge of front cover, good+. JOHN MILNER FOTHERGILL (1841 â€“ 1888), was a British physician and medical writer. Fothergill, son of a surgeon,...
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Die Electrischen Fische. Nach Neuen Untersuchungen Anatomisch-Zoologisch Dargestellt. Vol. I Malopterurus electricus; Vol. II Die Torpedineen

By: Fritsch, Gustav

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Veit & Comp.: 1887 1890

Seller ID: 714

1887-1890 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF ELECTRIC FISH: TWO FOLIO VOLUMES WITH 32 LARGE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES BY PIONEERING NEUROPHYSIOLOGIST GUSTAV FRITSCH2 volumes, 19 inches tall hardcover printed boards, cloth spine binding, Vol. I, vii, 90 pp, 4 wood engravings, 12 lithographic plates; Vol. II, vi, 146 pp, 30 wood engravings, 20 lithographic plates. Corners bumped, dampstains to 3 covers, wear to cover edges, pages mostly unopened & uncut, text and plates unmarked and fine. In custom archival mylar covers. GUSTAV THEODOR FRITSCH (1838 - 1927) was a German anatomist, anthropologist, traveller and physiol...
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Category: Physiology