Author: Botkin, Sergei Petrovich [ Sergej Petrovic ( Sergey Petrovich ) (1832-1889) ]
Title: Kurs kliniki vnutrennikh bolieznei. [Parts I - II]
Description: S. Peterburg, Tip. Imp. Akademi Nauk, 1867-1868. 1/4-leather. 22x14cm, (347) pp, Contemporary binder's quarter-leather. Several large chips from binding's paper coating. LACKING front free flyleaf.. Frontispiece.. Binding heavily rubbed. Spine scuffed. Hinges tender. Just Good. ¶ Foxed. Name on title. First edition. Author's first book? Consists of 2 parts bound in one volume. Pagination runs xix,148 + v,176,(1) pp. Part I with original wrappers bound in. A third part was published in 1875 but not present here. Author founder of the physiological school in Russian medicine ["...Botkin played a role in Russian medicine that was very similar to that of Osler in English-speaking countries.... After studying under Virchow... & Claude Bernard...Botkin established a laboratory in his medical clinic, the first in Russia. He became intensely interested in evidence of the influence of the central nervous system on visceral function...was led to propose the theory of 'nervism' which stated that all bodily processes are regulated by the central nervous system. His remarkably farsighted intuition accelerated major developments in neurophysiology...Pavlov obtained a post in Botkin's clinical laboratory...[&] wrote his thesis under Botkin and did his first experiments on conditional reflexes with him..." - Stewart Wolf "Sergei Petrovich Botkin:A Russian William Osler" in 'Integrative Physiology & Behavioral Science', Vol. 29, No. 2, Apr-Jun 1994].

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