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On the Influence of Physical Agents on Life, to which are added, in the Appendix, Some Observations on Electricity, and Some Notes to the Work of Dr. Edwards [with] Necrological Notice of Dr. Philip Syng Physick; Delivered Before The American Philosophical Society, May 4, 1838 [with] Essays on Physiology and Hygiene
Edwards, W.F. [William Frederic]; Hodgkin, [Thomas]; Fisher, [Alder]; [Lister, Joseph Jackson]; Pouillet, [Claude Servais Matthias]; Howard, Luke; Horner, W.E. [William Edmonds]; Reid, John;
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell., 1838
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Aggiungi al carrelloHalf-Leather. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. First American edition of the work first published in French in 1832 (Garrison-Morton 145.56/598.1). Edges rubbed, last page of third work missing. 1838 Half-Leather. 228, 8, 32, 136 pp. Includes 6 plates. American reissue of Garrison-Morton 12197: "Edwards studi…ed the influence of environmental factors on animal life, concluding that vital processes depend on external physical and chemical forces but are not entirely controlled by them. The work includes an account of Edwards' important experimental work regarding the effect of light on the body." Includes: Edwards, On the Influence of Physical Agents on Life, with Appendices: On Electricity by Prevost and Dumas; On Muscular Contractions Produced by Bringing a Solid Body into Contact with a Nerve without a Galvanic Circuit by Dr. Edwards; On Atmospheric Electricity by M. Pouillet; Extract from an Essay on Some of the Phenomena of Atmospheric Electricity by Luke Howard; Remarks on the Same Subject by the Editor, and Experiments and Observations by C. Woodward and P. Smith; Notes: On Asphyxia; On the Same Subject by Dr. M. Hall; On the Proteus; On the Existence of Fish, &c. in Water of High Temperature; On Hibernating Animals; On the Temperature of Hibernating Animals and of Young Animals by Dr. M. Hall; On the Views of Dr. M. Hall and Dr. Holland on This Subject; Original Experiments on the Effects of Heat and Cold by Sir Astley Cooper; Experiments on the Same Subject, with Reference to Restoration from Suspended Animation by Thomas Nunnelly; Observations on the Influence of Temperature on the Mortality of Children by Dr. M. Edwards and Dr. Villerme; On Cutaneous Absorption by Dr. Corden Thompson; Connexion of Rainy Seasons with Disease, Exemplified in the Cases Passing Through a Hospital; On an Increase of the Weight of Atmospheric Air, Noticed by Dr. Prout during the Prevalence of Cholera; On the Changes Effected in the Air by Respiration, with Notices of the Experiments of Dr. Stevens, S.D. Broughton, and Allen and Pepys; Necrological Notice of Dr. Philip Syng Physick by William Edmonds Horner (who wrote the first American work on pathology [see Garrison-Morton 2287]; Delivered Before The American Philosophical Society, May 4, 1838; Essays on Physiology and Hygiene: An Experimental Investigation into the Functions of the Eighth Pair of Nerves, or the Glosso-Pharyngeal, Pneumogastric, and Spinal Accesssory., by John Reid; Observations on the Structure hitherto unknown of the Nervous System in Man and Animals. by Professor [Chrstian Gottfried] Ehrenberg (first winner of the Leeuwenhoek medal) (translated, with additions and notes, by David Cragie); Plates to Professor Ehrenberg's Microscopical Observations on the Nervous System in Man and Animas (6 plates); On the Combination of Motor and Sensitive Nervous Activity; or on the Production of Sensations by Motions. by Professor [Georg Friedrich Ludwig] Stromeyer (a renowned orthopedic surgeon) (translated, with additions communicated by the author, by W. Little).
Altre immaginiEditore: Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1838., 1838
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Aggiungi al carrelloSoft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 32 pp. Later plain wrappers. Very Good.
