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Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion

By: Beaumont, William

Price: $1,400.00

Publisher: Plattsburgh, F. P. Allen: 1833

Seller ID: 172

1833 BEAUMONT'S OBSERVATIONS ON THE GASTRIC JUICE--FIRST EDITION OF RARE EARLY AMERICAN MEDICAL CLASSIC. 9 inches tall hardcover, original brown paper covered boards, more recent brown linen spine with gilt title, new endpapers, pencilled notes on front and back endpapers. 280 pp, 3 wood engravings in text, scattered light foxing, text unmarked, very good. In custom archival mylar cover. WILLIAM BEAUMONT (1785-1853) was a surgeon in the U.S. Army, and was the first to study the digestive system of a living person. His patient, a Canadian half-breed who had received a near-mortal gunshot wound ...
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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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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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The biology of the Weddell and crabeater seals, with a study of the comparative behaviour of the Pinnipedia

By: Bertram, G.C.L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, British Museum: 1940

Seller ID: 703

SIGNED BY AUTHOR--ANATOMY AND BEHAVIOR OF SEALS: ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF AN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION IN THE 1930s. 12 1/4 inches tall volume, orange printed paper covers, inscribed and signed by author top of cover, 139 pp, 42 figures, 10 photographic plates, corners curled, binding tight, text unmarked, good+. GEORGE COLIN LAWDER BERTRAM (1911 - 2001) Joined a three-man Cambridge Expedition to Scoresby Sound, East Greenland, transported there and back by Dr Jean-Baptiste Charcot in his ship Pourquoi-Pas?. This was followed by nine months studying coral reefs in the Red Sea, prior to accepting a pla...
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The Physiological Basis of Medical Practice. A Univerity of Toronto Text in Applied Physiology

By: Best, Charles Herbert and Taylor, Norman Burke

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Baltimore, William Wood & Co.: 1937

Seller ID: 950

1937 FIRST TEXTBOOK OF INTERNAL MEDICINE FOUNDED ON PHYSIOLOGY--BY CHARLES BEST, CO-DISCOVERER OF INSULIN. 9 1/4 inches tall, 3 inches thick hardcover, black cloth binding, cover blindstamped with publisher's initials, gilt title to spine, previous owner signature to front flyleaf, color frontis of blood cells, xxiii, 1684 pp (including 100 pages of references), 399 figures in text; abrasions to covers, corners bumped, bottom edge soiled, binding tight, pages unmarked, good+. FROM PREFACE: Physiology is a science in its own right and the laboratory worker who pursues his researches quite detac...
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Physiological Researches on Life and Death

By: Bichat X;

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Richardson and Lord: 1827

Seller ID: 121

1827 BICHAT - FAMOUS ANATOMIST'S STUDY BASED ON BODIES OF THOSE GUILLIOTINED IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 8 1/2 inches brown cloth binding, viii, 334 pages, corners worn, spine ends frayed, bookplate of John Crerar Library on front paste-down, perforated library stamp on title page, light foxing throughout, good. GARRISON-MORTON No. 597 (English translation of 2nd French ed, 1809): 'When Volta questioned the validity of experiments claiming to show responsiveness of an ex vivo heart, devoid of blood flow and nervous connections, Bichat obtained permission to experiment upon the freshly killed bod...
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Renal Function. Transactions of the First Conference, October 20-21, 1949, New York, N.Y.

By: Bradley, Stanley E., Pitts, Robert F., Oliver, Jean, Binkley, Francis, Taggart, John V., Berliner, Robert and Wesson, Laurence G., Jr.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation: 1950

Seller ID: 927

HISTORIC FIRST CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN KIDNEY PHYSIOLOGY WITH PAPERS BY LEADERS IN THE FIELD. 9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, previous owner signature front flyleaf and on table of contents, color frontis of fish kidney tubule with accumulated phenol red, 172 pp, illustrations; abrasions to top cover edges and spine, light foxing to first and last pages, binding tight, text pages unmarked, very good minus. STANLEY E. BRADLEY (1913 - 1999) was Bard Professor Emeritus of Medicine and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Columbia University from 1959 to 1970. A native of South C...
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The Way of an Investigator. A Scientist's Experiences in Medical Research

By: Cannon WB;

Price: $150.00

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

Seller ID: 108

1945 SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF LANDMARK AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY WALTER CANNON, WHO DEFINED THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 229 pages, red cloth binding, covers lightly stained, spine darkened, corners and spine ends rubbed, residue from rusty paper clip on front paste-down and front free endpaper, text unmarked. First printings of this wartime book, an autobiography published the year of Cannon's death, are very scarce. WALTER BRADFORD CANNON (1871 - 1945) was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coin...
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Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage. An Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement

By: Cannon, Walter B.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York and London, D. Appleton and Co.: 1925

Seller ID: 849

CLASSIC STUDY OF THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE. 8 inches tall hardcover, red cloth boards, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, previous owner bookplate to front flyleaf, xiii, 311 pp, 39 text figures, list at back of original research publications from the physiological laboratory of Harvard University on which the present account is based. Spine faded, binding tight, text unmarked, pages crisp, very good in custom archival mylar cover. PREFACE: Fear, rage, and pain, and the pangs of hunger are all primitive experiences which human beings share with the lower animals. These exp...
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The Bridgewater Treatises: On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation

By: Chalmers, T., Kidd, J., Whewell, W., Bell, C., Roget, P.M., Buckland, W., Kirby, W. and Prout, W.

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London, William Pickering: 1837

Seller ID: 336

FINE BINDING, ILLUSTRATED 1830s EARLY EDITION COMPLETE 12 VOLUMES OF BRIDGEWATER TREATISES WRITTEN BY BRITISH SCIENTISTS IN RESPONSE TO GROWING SECULAR VIEW OF LIFE. 8 3/4 inches tall set of 8 works bound in 12, bound in full calf gilt with double gilt rules, spines with raised bands and twin black leather gilt labels, marbled endpapers and edges. Numerous plates, illustrations. Armorial bookplate of Abel Smith, Woodhall Park, front paste-down of each volume. Spines and boards rubbed, light foxing to endpapers, bindings tight, text clean and bright. Individual volumes: 1. Chalmers, T.: The Ada...
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Digestion and Its Derangements. The Principles of Rational Medicine Applied to Disorders of the Alimentary Canal

By: Chambers TK

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Samuel S. & William Wood: 1856

Seller ID: 76

MID 19TH CENTURY GASTROENTEROLOGY TEXT: PHYSIOLOGY AND TREATMENT. 9 inches tall harcover, original green cloth covers, gilt title to spine, covers darkened, edges worn, library numbers on spine, library handstamp to edges, bookplate to front paste-down, medical library handstamp to title page, library slip and pocket on rear endpaper and paste-down, text good. CONTENTS: Parts of the organism concerned in digestion which are common to the whole anlimentary canal; The mouth and gullet; The stomach; The small intestine; The pancreas; The large intenstive and succeeding parts; The gases of the ali...
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A Commentary of Medical and Moral Life; or Mind and the Emotions, considered in relation to Health, Disease, and Religion

By: Cooke, William

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, & Co.: 1852

Seller ID: 969

1852 SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION, PHYSIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS, AND IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION IN MEDICINE. 8 inches tall hardcover, recent red buckram binding, gilt title to spine, xvi, 304 pp; covers and endpapers as new, title page and table of contents with chipped edges, remainder of text pages age-toned, unmarked, good+. CONTENTS include: Diversity of natural constitution in mind and body; Value of religion to medical men; Sketch of the construction and functions of the human body, with the evidences of design; Characteristics of emotions: sanguineous, choleric, phelgmatic, melanc...
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A Textbook of Pharmacology and Therapeutics or the Action of Drugs in Health and Disease, illustrated with 52 engravings

By: Cushny AR;

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea Bros. & Co.: 1903

Seller ID: 226

CUSHNY 'THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE TEXTBOOK IN ENGLISH BY AN EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGIST'. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, original blindstamped green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 756 pages. Dedication to Oswald Schmiedeberg, 'dem Meister vom Schuler Gewidmet'. Light wear to cover edges, age toning to pages, binding tight, very good plus. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION (1899): 'My object has been to bridge over the hiatus which exists between the phenomena occurring in the normal organism and those which are elicited in the therapeutic use of drugs, to show how far the clinical effects of remed...
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Curiosities of Erotic Physiology

By: Davenport J

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, The Panurge Press: 1930

Seller ID: 53

SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF LIMITED EDITION SEXUAL PHYSIOLOGY BOOK, AN ANTIDOTE TO 'DRY TECHNICAL TREATISES'. 8 3/4 inches hardcover, 200 pages, original decorative orange cloth binding with bright gilt title and art deco to cover and back, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, bookplate of Wade T. Kline to front paste-down, #518 of edition limited to 600, 'all of which, except ten copies for the editors of the Panurge Press, are intended for private circualtion among adult collectors of literary curiosities'. No illustrations. Corners slightly bumped, spine darkened, light soiling to first and las...
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Proceedings of the XVth International Physiological Congress, Leningrad--Moscow, August 9th to 16th, 1935, in The Sechenov Journal of Physiology of the USSR, Vol. XXI, No. 5-6

By: Dionessov, S.M., Eisenberg, A.V. and Fedorov, L.N.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Moscow and Leningrad, State Biological and Medical Press: 1938

Seller ID: 318

RARE FIRST EDITION OF PROCEEDINGS OF HISTORIC 15TH INTERNATIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL CONGRESS, LENINGRAD, IVAN PAVLOV PRESIDING. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, paper title labels to cover and spine, portrait frontis of Pavlov, and photographic plates of plenary speakers, including Pavlov and Cannon, and of the venues in Leningrad. Fine. From Peter J. Kuznick. Beyond the Laboratory 1987 (pp 153 ff): In late 1934, Cannon accepted Pavlov's invitation to deliver then in plenary address at the upcoming International Congress of Physiology scheduled for Moscow and Leningrad in July 1935....
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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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Image for The Mechanism of Synaptic Transmission, offprint from Ergebnisse der Physiologie Biologischen Chemie und Experimentellen Pharmakologie. Einundfunfzigste band [Results of Physiology, Biological Chemistry and Experimental Pharmacology. Volume 51]

The Mechanism of Synaptic Transmission, offprint from Ergebnisse der Physiologie Biologischen Chemie und Experimentellen Pharmakologie. Einundfunfzigste band [Results of Physiology, Biological Chemistry and Experimental Pharmacology. Volume 51]

By: Eccles, John C.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Berlin, Springer Verlag: 1961

Seller ID: 1032

1961 EARLY REVIEW OF SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION BY JOHN ECCLES PUBLISHED BEFORE HE WON NOBEL PRIZE--COPY OF NOBEL LAUREATE GEORGE WALD WITH HIS NOTES ON ECCLES' PAPER. 9 3/4 inches tall offprint, printed paper covers, signature of George Wald with his inscription Eccles '61 top of cover, 132 pp (pagination 299-430) with 43 figures, very good, with LAID IN folded page of autograph notes in Wald's hand, titled, Eccles 1961-Neg. feedback. Verso of page contains notes on France and England in America! JOHN CAREW ECCLES (1903 - 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 N...
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A cinematic study of the distribution of pressure in the human foot TOGETHER WITH 6 other offprints

By: Elftman, Herbert

Price: $40.00

Publisher: 1932 - 1950

Seller ID: 1035

1930s ILLUSTRATED ANATOMIC AND BIOMECHANICAL STUDIES OF WALKING AND RUNNING IN HUMANS AND PRIMATES. Seven offprints ~10 inches tall, each in printed paper covers, staple bound, unmarked (except cover note on No 7) and very good. 1) A cinematic study of the distribution of pressure in the human foot. Anat Rec Vol 59, July 25, 1934; 7 pp, 1 figure, 2 plates; 2) Chimpanzee and human feet in bipedal walking. Am J Phys Anthrop Vol 20, April-June 1935; 11pp, 6 figures; 3) The function of muscles in locomotion. Am J Physiol Vol 125, February 1939; 10 pp, 1 table, 4 figures; 4) The function of the arm...
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Essays in Biology in Honor of Herbert M. Evans

By: Evans, Herbert M., Fahrquhar, Samuel T., Leake, Chauncey D., Lyons, William R., Simpson, Miriam E., Allen, F.M., Althausen, T.L., Alvarez, W.C., Anderson, E.N., Purkinje, J.E., Bensley, R.R., Cole, H.H., Goss, H., de Graaf, R., Coward, K.H., Crowe, S.J.,

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of Calofornia Press: 1943

Seller ID: 798

IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY OF 3 EMINENT BIBLIOPHILES OF SCIENCE IN THE BERKELEY CIRCLE: FESTSCHRIFT FOR HERBERT EVANS, COPY OF CHARLES SINGER AND MELVIN EDWARD JAHN. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplates of Dr. Charles Singer and Melvin Edward Jahn to front paste-down, frontis portrait of Herbert M. Evans, xxvii, 684 pp, many illustrations, plate with facing descriptive text; corners bumped, edges soiled, binding tight, very good in very good dust jacket. HERBERT McLEAN EVANS (1882 - 1971) was a U.S. anatomist and embryologist. In 1908, he obtained hi...
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Category: Physiology