Author: Sechenov, Ivan Mikhailovich [1829-1905]
Title: Fiziologiia nervnoi sistemy / I. Siechenova [ Fiziologia nervnoy sistemy ]
Description: Sanktpeterburg, Tip. A. Golovachova, 1866. 1/4-leather. 22x14cm, vi,503,xii pp, Contemporary binder's quarter-leather. Spine heavily scuffed. Hinges tender. Binding extremities rubbed.. Folding plate.. Rubbed. Rubberstamp to reverse of plate. Good. ¶ Some flaking to spine. First edition of Sechenov's theory of cerebral behaviour mechanisms, which provided the basis for development of neurophysiology and objective psychology in Russia, including the investigations of Pavlov and Bekhterev.

Keywords: History of Medicine, Russian Physiology, Nervous System, Neurophysiology, , , , ,