Author: HALES, STEPHEN.
Title: Statical Essays: Containing Haemastaticks or An Account of some Hydraulick and Hydrostatical Experiments made on the Blood and Blood-Vessels of Animals Also An Account of some Experiments on Stones in the Kidneys and Bladder; with an Enquiry into the nature of those anomalous Concretions. To which is added An Appendix, containing Observations and Experiments relating to several subjects in the first Volume. The greatest Part of which were read at several Meetings before the Royal Society.
Description: Privately Printed Facsimile; Demy 8vo; pp. (xlii), 186, (26); marbled endpapers, bound in full leather by Quebecor Printing Sherwood, edges gilded, title stamped in gild on spine, gilt stamped decoration to front and rear boards, silk page marker, fine copy. New York; The Classics Of Medicine Library; 1999. The book gives Hales's account of his invention of the manometer and the first measurements of blood pressure.

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