The Prolongation of Life. Optimistic Studies. [Together with] Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology.

Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1908

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First American edition. Stout octavo. xx, 343, [1], (6, publisher's ads) pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Contemporary (1908) signature of Natalie Hammond on the front blank. The signature matches that of Natalie Hays Hammond, the wife of the famous mining engineer John Hays Hammond and an author herself (Smithsonian has a letter from Natalie Hammond to Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney).Metchnikoff won the Nobel Prize in Physiology in the same year that this book was published. Metchnikoff is commonly given accolades for his research on immunology and is said to have coined the term 'Gerontology'. He left his native Moldovia and in 1888 became the Sub-Director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris.[Together with]TAUBER, Alfred I & Leon CHERNYAK. Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. First edition, first printing. Publisher's terra-cotta cloth in dust jacket (old crease on rear).

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Title
The Prolongation of Life. Optimistic Studies. [Together with] Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology.
Author
METCHNIKOFF, Elie
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
Publication year
1908

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