TEXT-BOOK OF PHYSIOLOGICAL & PATHOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

by Bunge, G.; E.H. Starling, ed

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Philadelphia:: Blakiston,, 1902. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends worn; contents lightly aged; otherwise good.. index. Gustav von Bunge (1844-1920), `father to the concept of iron-deficiency anaemia' issued his `Lehrbuch der Physiologischen und Pathologischen Chemie' in Leipzig 1887 (G-M 710). Present work (2d English of 4th German edn.) is notable for being edited by Ernest Starling (he coined term `hormone'; worked with W.M. Bayliss on existence & role of pancreatic secretion). `The Starling sequence [of the heart]...remains the unifying theme of contemporary circulatory theory.' --DSB. ||| Bunge's original work in German & this Starling English trans. are in National Library of Medicine. ||| Starling's works are cited by both G-M & National Library of Medicine.