PAWLOW, J.P.
Die Arbeit der Verdauungsdrüsen. Vorlesungen von Prof. J.P.Pawlow in St. Petersburg. Autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem russischen von Dr. A. Walther in St. Petersburg. Mit einem Vorwort und Zusätzen des Verfassers sowie mit 17 Textabbildungen.
Wiesbaden, Verlag von J.F. Bergmann, 1898. 4to. In original brown-red pebbled publisher's cloth, spine ends some light imperf. ('Pawlow' in black ink in capitals on spine; spine some discol.). [n6, 1-12 in 8s, 13 in 3]. (XII, 199, I (Colophon), IV (adverts Kreidel & Bergmann publisher's) pp.). (Some annots. and underlinings in the text.). (Owner's sign. in ink on printed title.). (Libr. st. on half title; Ex bibliotheca 'Humboldt Universität zu Berlin'; deaccessioned.). First German edition and first western language edition, published a year after the original russian edition of 1897 and 4 years before the first English translation [1902]. This edition resulted in Pawlow's ideas being exposed to a large audience in the western world. DSB vol. X, pp. 431 - 436: '... conducted research on the physiology of digestion that was summarized in a work published in 1897 ['Lektsii o rabote glavnykh pishchevaritelnykh zhelez'] ... Pavlov's scientific work received worldwide recognition. In 1904 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine for his research on digestion... ': G&M, item 1022, note 'Pavlov made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion. Especially notable was his method of producing gastric and and pancreatic fistulae for the purpose of his experiments...': Duwe, Pawlow bibl. item 152: Asratian, Pawlow sa vie et son oeuvre, i.l.c.: Heirs of Hippocrates, item 1105: 'The work of the Russian physiologist Pavlov in the field of the physiology of digestion led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1904. His demonstration of conditioned reflexes and automatic responses in dogs had consequences not only for medicine, but for political practice, the sociological sciences, and psychology as well.': Dibner, Heralds, item 135: Horblitt, 100 books famous in medicine, item 83: PMM, item 385 [Russian ed 1897]: 'Mouth watering is a familiar experience... Pavlov made great contributions to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion in a series of lectures delivered in St Petersburg and published in the following year. In the course of these lectures he described the artificial stomach for dogs used by him to priduce for the first time gastric juices uncontaminated by food. Further experiments led him to the conclusion that salivation and the flow of gastric juice ensuing upon the sight or smell of food was due to a reflex process. This simple form of reaction he called first a 'psychic', later an 'unconditioned', reflex. Reflex action was familiar to physiologists, but it had never been invoked to explain such a complicated process. Pavlov now set himself to discover the far more complicated process involved in the evocation of gastric responses to stimuli other than food... this was in the nature of an aquired stimulus ... he called it a 'conditioned' reflex...':

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