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GLISSON (FRANCIS)
Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis, FIRST EDITION, Henry Brome, 1677

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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GLISSON (FRANCIS)

Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by William Faithorne, 3 engraved plates, some light dampstaining, contemporary calf, rebacked, upper cover detached [Garrison-Morton 579; Krivatsy 4828; Wellcome 27454842; Wing G859], 4to (199 x 153mm.), Henry Brome, 1677

Footnotes

"Glisson introduced the idea of irritability as a specific property of all human tissue", a hypothesis which was only demonstrated experimentally by Albrecht von Haller in the eighteenth century.

Provenance: "Liber T. Harbech" (most probably the seventeenth century physician Dr. Thomas Harbech), neat ownership inscription on title; Library of the Charity School Chamber, Nottingham, inscription noting gift on blank verso of title.

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