The Assaying of Brabantius and Other Verse. INSCRIBED BY CHARLES S. SHERRINGTON

SHERRINGTON, C. [Charles] S.

Published by London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925.

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4 leaves, 5-67 pp. Original cloth-backed boards, with printed paper label on front board. Boards a little soiled and foxed, but still Very Good. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY CHARLES SHERRINGTON to Jamie Graham Brown: "To Jamie Graham Brown/ with best of remembrances/ from C.S.S. ." Graham Brown was one of Sherrington's earliest scientific friends: "In 1885 Sherrington was presented with an opportunity for foreign travel--an addiction which he was only too happy to cultivate. His friend the newly elected professor of pathology at Cambridge, C. S. Roy, had recently solved a problem of infection which was devastating the cattle in Argentina. As Sherrington wrote later, Roy 'succeeded in devising a preventive inoculation which alleviated the mischief.' The next 'mischief' occurred in Spain in the form of Asiatic cholera, and a Spanish physician was claiming that he had produced a vaccine with which to combat it. Sherrington was sceptical, however, that a vaccine had been successfully produced in Spain. Thus, with J. Graham Brown [the recipient of this copy], also of Cambridge, Sherrington and Roy set off for the Peninsula. They moved about that land under the auspices of Cambridge University, the Royal Society of London, and the Association for Research in Medicine! In spite of this, however, they were required to pay the commanding army general of the infected area his 'cut' before they could proceed to see cases beyond the quarantine barriers. In Toledo an angry mob set upon the trio, and the intervention of the British Consul--a huge Scot who could curse loudly in Spanish--saved their lives. Paving stones were flying through the air by the time he arrived. . . . The report presented by Roy, Sherrington and Graham Brown to the Royal Society discredited the claims made for the Spanish vaccine. It confirmed Koch's work on the cholera-spirillum" (Eccles & Gibson, Sherrington, His Life and Thought, pp. 3-4). Charles Sherrington shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932 with Edgar Adrian "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons.". Seller Inventory # 16133

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Title: The Assaying of Brabantius and Other Verse. ...

Publisher: London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition