Category: Physiology

Image for A Charles Richet - ses amis, ses collegues, ses eleves. (n.p., Paris), May 1926. Bound with: Discours prononces a I'occasion du jubile Charles Richet.

A Charles Richet - ses amis, ses collegues, ses eleves. (n.p., Paris), May 1926. Bound with: Discours prononces a I'occasion du jubile Charles Richet.

By: Abelous, J.E., Arthus, M., Athanasiu, J., Delezenne, C., Fano, G., Fredericq, L., Gley, E., Lusk, G., Hedon, E., Houssay, B.A., Lapique, L., Nolf, P., Lodge, O., Painleve, P., Pawlow, J., Pi-Suner, A., Portier, P., Richet, C.fils, Roger, G.H., Schafer, E

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Paris, Editions Medicales : 1926

Seller ID: 1265

UNIQUE SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF FESTSCHRIFT HONORING NOBELIST CHARLES RICHET, COPY OF NOBELIST CHARLES SHERRINGTON, CONTAINING WALTER CANNON'S ESSAY FIRST USING THE TERM HOMEOSTASIS.11 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, (n.p., Paris), July 1926. Two volumes in one, original stiff printed wrappers to both volumes bound in, uncut, [4],101 pp, [4]; 37 pp, [1]. Limitation indication in the first volume: copy 269 of 500, signed hy the editor. Each volume with the ownership signature of the 1932 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, PAPERS IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH LAN...
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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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Introduction a l'Etude de la Medecine Experimentale

By: Bernard, Claude

Price: $900.00

Publisher: Paris, J.B. Bailliere et Fils : 1865

Seller ID: 1216

1865 SCARCE FIRST ISSUE OF CLAUDE BERNARD'S INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE, THE WORK THAT BROUGHT THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD TO CLINICAL RESEARCH--COPY OF NOTED FRENCH SURGEON. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, marbled paper covered boards with brown leather spine with raised bands, gilt title top and Samuel Pozzi bottom of spine, marbled endpapers, Paris bookseller's ticket corner of front paste down, decorative bookplate of Herbert Jeremy Goldings to front flyleaf, signature of Samuel Pozzi top of half title page, with fine pencil notes beneath title, verso half title with Crete bo...
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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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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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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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Image for 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

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 numerous engravings

By: Dunglison, Robley

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: $400.00

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. Listed on verso of leaf is a list of the individual volumes of Francis Parkman's monumental "France and England in North America" ?(1865-1892), with publication date...
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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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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: $200.00

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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Water: A Medical Essay: Its History, Characteristics, Hygienic and Therpeutic Uses

By: Francis, Samuel W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, The Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter : 1861

Seller ID: 1046

1861 A UNIQUE CULTURAL AND MEDICAL HISTORY OF WATER PUBLISHED AT BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR BY WEALTHY NEW YORK PHYSICIAN-INVENTOR. 10 inches tall offprint, printed pink paper covers, Table of contents, Errata on verso, 47 pp; covers soiled, edges chipped, text pages age-toned, clean, unmarked, good+. CONTENTS: 1. Religious history; 2. Mythological history; 3. Profane history; 4. Therapeutics; 5. Anatomy and Physiology; 6. Water as a drink; 7. Chemistry; 8. Natural Philosophy; 9. Geology; 10. Botany; 11. Tortures of Water; 12. Mineral Waters; 13. Inhabitants of Water. SAMUEL WARD FRANCIS (1835...
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Studies on experimental hypertension. I. The production of persistent elevation of systolic blood pressure by means of renal ischemia

By: Goldblatt, Harry, Lynch, James, Hanzai, Ramon F. and Summerville, Ward W.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Journal of Experimental Hypertension : 1934

Seller ID: 1007

1934 FIRST EDITION OF SEMINAL PAPER ON EXPERIMENTAL HYPERTENSION BY HARRY GOLDBLATT AND ASSOCIATES. 10 inches tall extract from the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol. 59, pp 347-379, 1934; 15 text figures, 2 plates, in recent gray stiff paper covers, fine. GARRISON-MORTON No. 2719. Goldblatt discovered the role of the kidneys in the regulation of blood pressure. This was the first of Goldblatt's papers on experimental hypertension, which established an etiologic role for renal ischemia in the production of hypertension and established a laboratory basis for its study. HARRY GOLDBLATT (189...
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The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination

By: Goldschmidt, Richard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London and New York, Methuen & Co., Ltd., George H. Doran Co. : 1923

Seller ID: 565

1923 MONOGRAPH BY BRILLIANT GENETICIST AT THE TIME OF FORMULATION OF THE MODERN SYNTHESIS OF GENETICS AND EVOLUTION. 10 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, viii, 259 pp, over 100 figures (including fold-out plates). Covers lightly soiled, corners and spine ends bumped, endpapers darkened, page margins darkened, unmarked. Very good-. REVIEW BY JULIAN HUXLEY IN NATURE [Vol. 112, pp 927-930, 29 Dec. 1923] "The earlier rigid belief that sex-determination was entirely a matter of the chromosome-constitution must the...
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Image for Physiologie de l'Espece. Histoire de la Generation de l'Homme, precedee de l'Etude Comparative de Cette Fonction dans les Division Principales du Regne Animal

Physiologie de l'Espece. Histoire de la Generation de l'Homme, precedee de l'Etude Comparative de Cette Fonction dans les Division Principales du Regne Animal

By: Grimaud de Caux, G. Martin Saint-Ange, G.J.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Paris, Victor Masson : 1847

Seller ID: 197

1847 LARGE FRENCH ATLAS OF COMPARATIVE REPRODUCTION WITH SCARCE HAND COLORED PLATES. 8 x 11 inch hardcover, 438 pages, xv plate descriptions, new hand-marbled paper-covered boards, original red leather spine with raised bands, gilt title and decoration, all edges gilt, 12 pairs of facing plates in duplicate, separated by tissue guards, drawn by Martin Saint-Ange: one set by Acarie Baron, lithographed by Bernard and Frey, the second set stipple engraved by Annedouche, printed by N. Remond, and hand-colored (lithographed Plate XII not bound in this copy--only the color engraving). TEXT IN FRENCH...
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Image for Experiments and Observations on the Communcation Between the Stomach and the Urinary Organs, and On the Propriety of Administering Medicine by Injection Into the Veins

Experiments and Observations on the Communcation Between the Stomach and the Urinary Organs, and On the Propriety of Administering Medicine by Injection Into the Veins

By: Hale, Enoch, Jr.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, Oliver Everett and Joseph W. Ingraham : 1821

Seller ID: 1217

1821 ORIGINAL REPORTS BY A YOUNG BOSTON PHYSICIAN USING SELF-EXPERIMENTATION TO STUDY URINARY EXCRETION OF ORAL AND INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATIONS. 5 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches paperbound book, untrimmed in green printed covers, 135 pp, covers browned and foxed, front cover detached, spine partly perished, pages clean and unmarked. TOGETHER WITH anonymous review of the dissertations in North American Review, January 1922. The medical dissertations by the Boston physician who published these remarkable papers were awarded the Harvard University Boylston Prize for 1819 and 1821. Both papers ...
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Memoires sur la Nature Sensible et Irritable des Parties du Corps Animal (Volumes I-IV, complete)

By: Haller, Albert von

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Lausanne, Marc-Michel Bosquet, Sigismond d'Arnay : 1756, 1760

Seller ID: 1246

FOUR-VOLUME PIONEERING TREATISE DISTINGUISHING NEURAL SENSIBILITY FROM MUSCULAR IRRITABILITY BY SWISS POLYMATH FATHER OF PHYSIOLOGY. Four 12mo hardcover volumes 6 1/2 inches tall, original full leather binding, gilt compartments to spine with gilt red and green leather labels, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers,. 12mo. x, 399; [vi], 500; [ii], 512, [4], 232 pp. Engraved frontis depicting vivisections, titles printed in red and black, small title vignettes, tailpieces, 2 engraved folding plates (Vol. II facing p. 432; Vol. III facing p.322). Wear to cover edges and spines, bindings tight,...
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Category: Physiology