Author: SHERRINGTON, SIR CHARLES.
Title: The Endeavour of Jean Fernel.
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946. With a List of the Editions of his Writings. "Fernel began as a scholar reading humane letters, and did not choose medicine as a career until he was thirty. Behind him was the world of the middle ages of contented antiquity worship, and before him the discovery and open-mindedness of the Renaissance." Pp.x/223, 27 black & white illustrations, maps to endpapers, small bookseller's label (Thorntons & son, Oxford) to inside front paste-down. Green cloth, top and lower edges of boards sunned, dustwrapper rubbed with some edge wear but in a removable clear protective wrap. G+/G+.

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