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KLEIN, E., BURDON-SANDERSON, J., FOSTER, Michael, |
| Title: |
HANDBOOK FOR THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. London, J. & A. Churchill, 1873. pp. xii, 583, 24; xvi, 123 Plates. Original matching brown cloth, a little soiled, backstrip relaid on both volumes. Volume 1 (the text) is ex lib. The Physiological Laboratory, University College, London (2 stamps on title and occasionally elsewhere); 1 leaf has the lower third deliberately cut away with loss of text on one page only, the para affected relates to a spinal nerve preparation in the frog. Signature of E.A. Schäfer March 1873 (i.e. Sir Edward Sharpey-Schäfer) on half-title. Volume 2 (atlas) is a clean copy with no marks on the plates. Signature of V.A.H. Horsley, University College, Gower Street 1876 on front pastedown |
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* This work was the first manual for the physiological laboratory published in English and contains detailed instructions for the repetition of dozens of classical experiments in physiology. Being concerned with 'vivisection' it had a major influence on opinion leading up to the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876.
This is an important association copy with ownership by two of the greatest names in British physiology Ð Sir Edward Sharpey-SchŠfer (1850-1935), a pupil of Sharpey who added his name to SchŠfer after the first world war, and Sir Victor Horsley (1857-1916) the founder of neurosurgery in England. £250 |
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