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8vo (181 x 111 mm) engraved portrait, 20 nn.ll., 335, 152 pp., 6 engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, speckled edges (somewhat rubbed and lightly worn).
1 in stock
Garrison-Morton, 578 ; Fulton, 108 ; Waller, 6392 ; Wellcome, IV, p. 93 ; NLM, 7653 (without the portrait).
First edition, rare.
Important work by John Mayow (1643-1679), one of the great classics of British medicine.
“Mayow was the first to locate the seat of animal heat in the muscles ; he discovered the double articulation of the ribs with the spine and came near to discovering oxygen in his suggestion that the object of breathing was to abstract from the air a definite group of live-living “particles”. He was the first to make the definite suggestion that it is only a special fraction of the air that is of use in respiration. His Tractatus, embodying all his brilliant conclusions, is one of the best English medical classics” (Garrison-Morton).
The fine plates (including 2 folding) depict anatomical details, experiments, etc.
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