HALES, Stephen Haemastatique, ou La Statique des Animaux: Experiences Hydrauliques Faitessur des Animaux Vivans...Traduit de l'Anglois, & Augmenté de PlusieursRemarques & Deux Dissertations de Medecine...par Mr. De Sauvages. Chez les Hérit. Cramer & Fréres Philibert Geneva 1744 Contemp. calf, spine gilt First French edition. xxii, 348 pp. 4to. "In this work is recorded Hale's invention of the manometer, with which he was the first to measure blood-pressure. His work is the greatest single contribution to our knowledge of the vascular system after Harvey and led to the development of the blood-pressure measuring instruments now in universal use." See Garrison-Morton, 765, citing the English edition of 1733, which was issued as volume II of Hales' Statical Essays. --Blake, p. 194. Wellcome, III, P. 194. Osler 1083. See Printing and tahe Mind of Man 189 b. See Horblit 45b. Joints started, extremities of binding rubbed. A very good copy. Price: USD 1,200.00 other currencies   order no. 1160    inquire

(To order this book, press this button)

Read the ABAA Code of Ethics

offered by: Edwin V. Glaser Rare Books P.O. Box 755 Napa, CA 94559 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA P: Edwin V. Glaser Tel. (707) 258-6281 E-mail:  Internet: www.glaserrarebooks.com Science & Technology, Medicine, Early Printed Books, Natural History, History of Ideas # Catalogues * By appointment only    search our database...