Search Results: Titles starting with K from Biomed Rare Books

New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. First edition, first printing.
HOMER SMITH'S MAGNUM OPUS--1000+ PAGE MONOGRAPH ON PHYSIOLOGY OF THE KIDNEY AT MIDCENTURY BY DEAN OF AMERICAN RENAL PHYSIOLOGY INSCRIBED TO PIONEER IN HEMODIALYSIS.
9 1/4 inches tall, 2 inches thick hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, printed title to cover, gilt title to spine, ink inscription on front paste-down, "Dr Charles Whisnant/ Medical Service/ Emory University Hospital/ 12-3-53," ink inscription on front endpaper, "To Dr. Charles Whisnant/ With my very best weshes/ Homer W. Smith/ February 23, 1955," color frontis photomicrographs of human glomeruli, xxii, 1049 pp, 153 figures in text, bibliography listing 2300 references. Light wear to edges of covers, browning of endpapers from contact with original dust jacket, light browning of page edges, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. A very good signed association copy in good- original plain brown paper jacket lacking top 3 1/2 inches over spine. GARRISON-MORTON… Read More

American Physiological Society, 1924. First edition. 1924 PIONEERING REPORT OF FIRST RECORDING OF MOVING PHOTOMICROGRAPHS OF CAPILLARY FUNCTION IN THE FROG BY NOBEL LAUREATE AUGUST KROGH. 17.5x25 cm offprint in printed wraps, line and photographic illustrations, penciled numbers top of cover, staples rusted. age-toned pages, very good. AUGUST KROGH (1874-1949), professor at Copenhagen University, received the 1920 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the causes of capillary constriction and expansion. In 1922 Krogh published his classic Anatomy and Physiology of Capillaries, which showed that capillaries are regulated both by the nervous system and by hormonal secretions. "Many of the scientists who became the most prominent physiologists of the United States in succeeding decades participated in the studies that made up Krogh's famous monograph. His influence on American physiology cannot be overstated" (Magill, Nobel Prize Winners: Physiology or Medicine, p. 210). A very… Read More