EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE GASTRIC JUICE, AND THE PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION.
Boston: Lilly, Wait, and Company. Printed by F. P. Allen, 1834. 24 cm. 280pp. Three illustrations. Some staining to boards and initial pages. Original cloth-backed paper boards with chipped paper spine label. Cloth chipped from spine ends, rear joint with a few splits. Considered "the most important study of digestion before Pavlov," Beaumont had the first edition printed in Plattsburg, where he had once practiced medicine. According to Beaumont, the original edition consisted of only 1000 copies, but his nephew later claimed 3000 copies were printed. This may explain where the second issue, with cancel title bearing 1834 Boston imprint, but still printed by F. P. Allen came from. Norman 152. Garrison-Morton 989. Grolier/Horblit 10. Heirs of Hippocrates 1411. (all citing 1833 Plattsburgh original edition). Ex-lib. of The Philadelphia County Medical Society marked only by a stamp on front endpaper. Item #68100
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