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Boston: W.M. Leonard, 1912. First edition. MANUAL FOR HARVARD MEDICAL STUDENTS BY LEGENDARY HARVARD PATHOLOGIST W.T. COUNCILMAN-SIGNED BY HIM. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth binding, spine gilt, ink inscription front free endpaper to Dr. N.C. Foot ""with the kind regards of W.T. Councilman."" Edges lightly age-toned, otherwise very good+. Four 4x5 inch black & white photomicrographs laid in, with note dated 1913-18 Jan. PREFACE This manual has developed from the Syllabus of Pathology published by Councilman and Mallory in 1904, and is designed with special reference to the teaching of the subject. The work gives the plan which has been followed in teaching pathology in the Harvard Medical School, and which has proven to be successful. Illustrations were purposely omitted in the work. Excellent and accurate as are most of the illustrations in the current textbooks of Pathology, they still, when objective, represent areas carefully selected for the illustration of a point, more…
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1926 LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY INSCRIBED BY JOHN FULTON TO FOUNDER OF THE FALLON CLINIC.
9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth boards, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, bookplate of NSR Maluf and hand stamp of Fallon Clinic Library on front paste-down, inscribed on front flyleaf "To John Fallon from the flattered author, J.F. Fulton/Oxford/March, 1929". Corners lightly bumped, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
GARRISON-MORTON No. 663, "A detailed study of the physiology of skeletal muscle. A valuable historical introduction will be found on pp. 3-55, and the book includes an extensive bibliography."
JOHN FARQUHAR FULTON (1899 – 1960) was an American neurophysiologist and historian of science. He received numerous degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He taught at Magdalen College School of Medicine at Oxford and later became the youngest Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale University. Starting in 1921, he studied neurophysiology at Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a B.A. with first class honors in 1923. Then, as a Christopher Welch Scholar at Magdalen College, he received an M.A. and a D.Phil. in 1925. He then received an M.D. from Harvard in 1927. After his time at Harvard, he focused his studies on neurosurgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston under Harvey Cushing. Muscular Contraction and the Reflex Control of Movement (offered here) was his first book. Dr. John Fallon was founder of the Fallon Clinic, Worcester, MA.
1926 LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY INSCRIBED BY JOHN FULTON TO FOUNDER OF THE FALLON CLINIC.
9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth boards, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, bookplate of NSR Maluf and hand stamp of Fallon Clinic Library on front paste-down, inscribed on front flyleaf "To John Fallon from the flattered author, J.F. Fulton/Oxford/March, 1929". Corners lightly bumped, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
GARRISON-MORTON No. 663, "A detailed study of the physiology of skeletal muscle. A valuable historical introduction will be found on pp. 3-55, and the book includes an extensive bibliography."
JOHN FARQUHAR FULTON (1899 – 1960) was an American neurophysiologist and historian of science. He received numerous degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He taught at Magdalen College School of Medicine at Oxford and later became the youngest Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale University. Starting in 1921, he studied neurophysiology at Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a B.A. with first class honors in 1923. Then, as a Christopher Welch Scholar at Magdalen College, he received an M.A. and a D.Phil. in 1925. He then received an M.D. from Harvard in 1927. After his time at Harvard, he focused his studies on neurosurgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston under Harvey Cushing. Muscular Contraction and the Reflex Control of Movement (offered here) was his first book. Dr. John Fallon was founder of the Fallon Clinic, Worcester, MA.
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London: Royal Society of London, 1851-1854. First edition. FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK PAPERS DEMONSTRATING THE PROCESS OF FERTILIZATION OF THE VERTEBRATE EGG, AND EARLY EMBRYOGENESIS. 12 inches tall hardcover, recent 1/2 maroon cloth binding, marbled paper covers, gilt leather label to spine, new endpapers, list of sources of papers followed by bound extracts from 3 issues of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Vol 141, pp 169-242, Plate XIV (1851), Vol. 143, pp 233-290 (1853), Vol. 144, pp 229-244 (1854). Binding fine, text pages unmarked, plate margins darkened, small college library embossed stamp to bottom of plate, very good in custom archival mylar cover. GEORGE NEWPORT (1803-1854) Newport held the post of house surgeon to the Chichester Infirmary until January 1837, when he established himself in practice gradually declined; and when in 1847 he was awarded a pension from the civil list of £100 per annum for his contributions to natural history, he was able to devote…
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New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1874. Second edition. 1874 AUSTIN FLINT, JR. "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. 3. Secretion, excretion, ductless glands, nutrition, animal heat, movements, voice and speech, 526 pp, publisher's ads; Vol. 4. Nervous system, 470 pp, publisher's ads; Vol. 5. Special senses, generation, 517, publisher's ads. HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.AUSTIN FLINT II (1836 - 1915) was an American physician. He carried out…
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Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1879. First American edition. 1879 ENGLISH SURGEON AUTHORED THIS FIRST BOOK DEVOTED TO SECTION-CUTTING OF SPECIMENS FOR MICROSCOPIC STUDY BY A SCOTTISH SURGEON. 6 1/2 inches tall slim hardcover, publisher's dark green cloth binding, blindstamped rulings to covers, gilt title to cover and spine, viii, 90 pp with 11 blank leaves bound in between pages 87 and 89 (noted in other copies, and presumably intended for readers' notes). Covers clean and bright, binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good+. SYLVESTER MARSH (1845-1890) was a surgeon, and a semi-professional microscopist. He produced high-quality microscope slides, in particular paired stained sections of human liver from healthy and alcoholic individuals (Figures 1-3). He also prepared and distributed other histological specimens, and sectioned botanical objects. In 1878, he published in London a small book (1st American in 1879, offered here) on how to prepare and cut thin sections of tissues for…
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