Lectures On The History Of Physiology During The Sixteenth, Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries.
£45.00
Publisher
At The University Press.
Place
Cambridge
Date
1901
Synopsis
(cambridge natural science manuals. biological series).
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches. [xii] + 310 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Rough cut edges. Extremities a little worn and stained with light cockling of front board. All pages cockled and edges slightly foxed; otherwise a very good copy. 1901 Cambridge signature on first free endpaper. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece. Ten lectures on the history of physiology from Versalius and Harvey, delivered as the Lane Lectures at the Cooper Medical College in San Francisco, 1900. By Sir Michael Foster (1836-1907), who held successive chairs of physiology at University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge and also served as an MP. He organised the University of Cambridge Biological School and acted as Secretary of the Royal Society.
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