Physiology of the Nervous System

London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1938. First edition.

ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY BY LEGENDARY YALE PROFESSOR JOHN FULTON, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HIM.

8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, book plate of David Crocker to front paste-down, inscribed on front flyleaf, "Signed for David Crocker with all good wishes John Fulton/ November 1939." xv, 675 pp, 94 illustrations. Covers clean, spine bright, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover.

GARRISON-MORTON No. 1248 "includes excellent 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.

PROVENANCE: DAVID A. CROCKER (born 1937), is Research Professor in the School of Public Policy, at the University of Maryland, he is also the founder and former president of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA). His work has been cited by the United Nations Human Development Report.