Experiments & observations on the gastric juice

by Beaumont

$3,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Plattsburgh: F.P. Allen, 1833. 4to. 280 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 3 wood engravings. Original boards, rebacked in cloth, spine label; a very good copy with only minor browning. Preserved in a clamshell case. Item #20102 First edition of Beaumont's brilliant clinical investigation into the physiology of digestion. Beaumont 1785-1853 , a United States Army surgeon, was the first to study

• Binding: Hardcover

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