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Marshall HALL (1790-1857).
Lectures on the Nervous System and its Diseases
first US edition - rare on the market: no copies currently for sale, the last copy listed at auction was in 2007
$150
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Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1836, leather
1st US edition, acceptable [see images]
Marshall HALL (1790-1857). Lectures on the Nervous System and its Diseases. Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836. 8vo, signed in fours. Pp. [i-]x-xiii[-xiv; 15-]18- 240. Half-title. (Spotted, toned). Contemporary speckled sheep, spine gilt, leather lettering-piece, Mobile, Alabama bookseller’s label to front pastedown, label to front pastedown ‘Sold by / J.M. Sumwalt, / Mobile, Alabama’ (damage to lettering-piece, joints split, scuffed and rubbed, small section of upper outer corner of front free endpaper torn away with loss of most of an early manuscript inscription). First US edition of an incunable of neurology – published in the same year as the UK first edition.
"The following Notes of Lectures delivered in the Summer of 1835, - for I wish to be viewed but as notes, -present the outline of an investigation in which I have been for some time engaged. There are many subjects pointed out in it, requiring renewed anatomical, experimental, clinical, and historical research; and to these I propose to devote my future studies. How interesting and valuable would a series of cases be, taken in the rigid spirit of truth, and with a continual reference to the divisions of the nervous system, which I have proposed ! Like the scientific traveller, I have sketched my route, to which I shall adhere, or from which I shall deviate, according as new views may present themselves, and direct my further progress. “ (‘advertisement’).
“Marshall Hall FRS (18 February 1790 – 11 August 1857) was an English physician, physiologist and early neurologist. His name is attached to the theory of reflex arc mediated by the spinal cord, to a method of resuscitation of drowned people, and to the elucidation of function of capillary vessels.” (wikipedia).
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