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1 leaf [title page], 31 pp, with 6 text figures. Recent marbled boards, with recent printed paper spine label. Vertical crease. Very Good. INSCRIBED BY JOSEPH LISTER to Professor Haycraft: "Professor Haycraft/ from the author." Professor Haycraft was probably John Berry Haycraft, because of his work on the coagulation of the blood: "During his years in Birmingham and Edinburgh, Haycraft had been actively engaged in research and published papers on the coagulation of blood and in 1884, he discovered that the leech secreted a powerful anticoagulant, which he named hirudin, although it was not isolated until the 1950s, nor its structure fully determined until 1976" (Wikipedia). Haycraft was a medical school representative at Lister's funeral in 1912. First Separate Printing. Garrison-Morton 871 (citing journal appearance, original journal pagination, Vol. 12, 1863, pp. 580-611.): "In his Croonian Lecture Lister exploded the theory that blood coagulation is due to ammonia and showed that, in the blood vessels, it depends upon their injury. He further showed that by carrying out the strictest precautions he could keep blood free from putrefaction indefinitely, thus supporting his theory that bacteria were the cause of wound suppuration." "Amongst the many other occupations and ever-widening interests of the next few years [1858-1863], Lister pursued his investigations on coagulation of the blood with unremitting energy. The subject attracted him not merely by its intrinsic interest and obscurity, but because it was so closely related to that of the early stages of inflammation. . . . Amongst the Collected Papers are five dealing with coagulation of the blood. . . . The fourth, and much the most important, is the Croonian Lecture delivered before the Royal Society in London in 1863 [offered here], when he was a professor with a world-wide reputation. It gives his mature and considered views upon the whole matter. . . . The observations cost Lister an inconceivable amount of labour, and they yielded him and his helpers a vast amount of pleasure. Their accuracy has never been called in question. . . . Sometimes it is necessary to lay special emphasis upon certain stages of a long life that are almost forgotten. In this particular instance it is more than justified, because Lister's work upon the blood was an essential step in the study of inflammation; and the study of the causes and prevention of inflammation in wounds was his principal achievement" (Godlee, Lord Lister, third edition, 1924, pp. 68-72). Norman 1365. Osler 1676. Seller Inventory # 17271
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