The Blood Vessels of the Human Skin and Their Responses.

LEWIS, Thomas:

Published by London: Shaw & Sons, 1927., 1927

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First Edition of Garrison-Morton 797. xv, 322 pp; 76 figs. Original cloth, small 4to. Upper 1.5 inches of front joint worn. Lower corner of front cover slightly bumped. Chicago Medical Book Company label pasted over title page imprint. Some bubbling to cloth of front cover. Else Very Good. "By 1925 Lewis had had enough of his elaborate electrocardiographic work and, believing that 'the cream was off,' he returned to observations on the cutaneous vessels which he had started during the war . A series of observations on the vascular reaction of the skin to various injuries led to his description of the red line, flare, and wheal so produced as the triple response, with the postulate that the original stimulus acts by damaging the tissues, which produce a histaminelike compound that Lewis called the H-substance. This work was gathered together in 1927 in his monograph The Blood Vessels of the Human Skin and Their Responses" (D.S.B. 8: 295). Lewis's "simple and well-conceived experiments, his painstaking observations and carefully worded conclusions are nowhere, it seems to me [Fulton], better illustrated than in . his monopgraph on the human capillaries" (Fulton & Wilson, Selected Writings in the History of Physiology, p. 100). Seller Inventory # 07510

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Blood Vessels of the Human Skin and ...

Publisher: London: Shaw & Sons, 1927.

Publication Date: 1927

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition