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San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1966. First English edition. CONTROVERSIAL BOOK ON ANTIMATTER BY NOBEL LAUREATE HANNES ALFVEN - SIGNED WITH MARGINAL NOTES BY NOBEL LAUREATE MARSHALL NIRENBERG, TRANSLATOR OF THE GENETIC CODE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, title to cover and spine, signature of Marshall Nirenberg to front flyleaf, with handstamp of Section of Biochemical Genetics, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014; [vi], 103 pp, marginal notes in penciel on pages 12 and 12; very good in very good dust jacket with small edge tears. HANNES ALFVEN (1908 - 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. In 1937, Alfvén argued that if plasma pervaded the universe, it could then carry electric currents capable of generating a galactic magnetic field. His theoretical work on…
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A Series of Lectures, on the Most Approved Principle and Practice of Modern Surgery: Principally Derived from the Lectures Delivered by Astley Cooper, Esq. F.R.S. etc. at the United Hospitals of Guy and St. Thomas, and in which will be found Some of the Opinions of the Most Celebrated Surgeons, from the Time of Hunter, to the Present Moment, Interspersed with Numerous Cases by Charles Williams Jones
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Boston: Charles Ewer, 1823. First American from the Second London edition.
1821 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION LECTURES ON EARLY 19TH CENTURY SURGERY BY ASTLEY COOPER, SURGEON TO BRITISH ROYALTY.
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TITLES OF LECTURES: Temperature of the blood; Inflammation; Ulcers; Furuncles; Wounds of veins, chest and gun-shot wounds; Poisons; Head injuries; Hydrocoele; Aneurism; Cataract; Removal of the eye; Puncturing the bladder; Lithotomy; Diseases of the testicle; Diseases of the breast; Amputation; Hernia; Dislocations; Gonorrhoea and syphilis; Strictures; Fractures; Scrofula; Tumours.
SIR ASTLEY PASTON COOPER (1768 - 1841) was an English surgeon and anatomist, who made historical contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and testicles, and the pathology and surgery of hernia. From the first he devoted himself to the study of anatomy, and had the privilege of attending the lectures of John Hunter. In 1800 he was appointed surgeon to Guy's Hospital on the death of his uncle, William Cooper. In 1813 he was appointed professor of comparative anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons and was very popular as a lecturer. In 1817 he performed his famous operation of tying the abdominal aorta for aneurism; and in 1820 he removed an infected sebaceous cyst from the head of George IV. He was subsequently appointed sergeant surgeon to George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria. He served as president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1827 and again in 1836, and he was elected a vice-president of the Royal Society in 1830.
1821 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION LECTURES ON EARLY 19TH CENTURY SURGERY BY ASTLEY COOPER, SURGEON TO BRITISH ROYALTY.
10 inches tall hardcover recently rebound in red buckram with gilt title on spine, 456 pages uncut, age-toned, with scattered light foxing and occasional marginal pencil notes. Overall very good.
TITLES OF LECTURES: Temperature of the blood; Inflammation; Ulcers; Furuncles; Wounds of veins, chest and gun-shot wounds; Poisons; Head injuries; Hydrocoele; Aneurism; Cataract; Removal of the eye; Puncturing the bladder; Lithotomy; Diseases of the testicle; Diseases of the breast; Amputation; Hernia; Dislocations; Gonorrhoea and syphilis; Strictures; Fractures; Scrofula; Tumours.
SIR ASTLEY PASTON COOPER (1768 - 1841) was an English surgeon and anatomist, who made historical contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and testicles, and the pathology and surgery of hernia. From the first he devoted himself to the study of anatomy, and had the privilege of attending the lectures of John Hunter. In 1800 he was appointed surgeon to Guy's Hospital on the death of his uncle, William Cooper. In 1813 he was appointed professor of comparative anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons and was very popular as a lecturer. In 1817 he performed his famous operation of tying the abdominal aorta for aneurism; and in 1820 he removed an infected sebaceous cyst from the head of George IV. He was subsequently appointed sergeant surgeon to George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria. He served as president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1827 and again in 1836, and he was elected a vice-president of the Royal Society in 1830.
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