Author: SWAMMERDAM, Johannes.- THRUSTON.- MAYOW.- Respiration.-
Title: Tractatus physico-anatomico-medicus de respiratione usuque pulmonum, In quo, praeter primam respirationis in foetu inchoationem, aëris per circulam propulsio statuminatur, attractio exploditur; experimentaque ad explicandum sanguinis in corde tam auctum quam diminutum motum in medium producintir. B.u.w. 2) THRUSTON, M. De respirationis usu primario, diatriba. B.u.w. 3) MAYOW, J. Tractatus duo, quorum prior agit de respiratione: alter de rachitide.
Description: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]; Ibid; Ibid., Apud Joannem vander Linden; Felicem Lopez de Haro, Cornelium Driehuysen; idem, 1679. - 1671, 1671. 8vo. 3 vols. in 1. The Swammerdam w. engr. title ['G.W.Scul' = G. Wingendorp] (some browning), small woodc. engr. vign. on printed tile & 7 woodc. figs. in the text [nr. 2 a repeat]. The Thruston w. woodc. vignet on title, not illustrated. The Mayow w. woodc. mark on title & 2 [unsigned] engr. pls. [between lvs. A1 and A2] In contemp. full vellum, some surface soiling, top of upper outer hinge split over ca 2-3 cm. [....]. (XVI, 121, XXIII pp. ( a few wormholes in the endp. and engr. / printed title, a pinhole up to pp. 35; some foxing.); X, 165, I (blank) pp.; II, 57, V (blank) pp.). Second unchanged edition of the original 1667 Gaasbeeck. Ad 1) Hirsch vol. V, pp. 4848 - 485: DMB c. 1923 - 1927: Schierbeek, pp. 67 - 71: '... is a masterpiece, a masterly example of clear reasoning... and a significant experimental work.': G&M 1724 [1st ed.]: 'In it he recorded his discovery that the lungs of newborn infants will float on water if respiration has taken place, an important medico-legal point.': Heirs of Hippocrates, 388 '... a classic on respiration...': Osler, 959: Waller, 9385 [first ed. 1667]: Krivatsy, 11607: 'A corrected reprint of the 1667 ed.': Ad 2) Thruston. Eloy IV, p. 394: Partington, vol. 2, pp. 571 - 573: 'Some statements about the effects of air on the blood in respiration ... were made by ... Thruston in a Cambridge MD thesis presented in 1664, but not published until 1670..': Cole, comp. anatomy, 351: Krivatsy, 11841: Waller, I, 9571: Ad 3 Mayow. Hirsch vol. IV, pp. 139 - 140: DNB vol. 37, 175: '... Mayow stands immeasurably above such men as Willis and Sylvius ... he must be classed with Hooke and Boyle ...': Partington vol. II, pp. 585 - 588: Rothschuh, pp. 117 - 118: Fulton, selected readings, pp. 123 - 127: Norman Coll. comp. 1474 [Tractatus Quinque, 1674] '... some have contended that Mayow anticipated Lavoisier in the discovery of oxygen.': Krivatsy, 7657: Waller, vol. I, 6391: Heirs of Hippocrates, 410: 'His tract on rickets was only the second on the subject by an Englishman. In it he gives a clear description of the clinical symptoms of the disease.': Three important works on respiration, The Swammerdam in the second [corrected] Leiden edition, The Thruston and Mayow in the first continental edition [originally London 1670 & Oxford 1669 resp.).

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