Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell. 1838. First American Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2304976

First American edition of the work first published in French in 1832 (Garrison-Morton 145.56/598.1).

228, 8, 32, 136 pp. Includes 6 plates. American reissue of Garrison-Morton 12197: "Edwards studied 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; 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); 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); Vegetable Physiology; Public Hygiene; Experiments on the Brain, Spinal Marrow, and Nerves; Vital Statistics; Progress of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System during the Year 1836., by Professor Muller.

Price: $150.00