The Principles of Physiology; Applied To The Preservation Of Health, And To The Improvement Of Physical And Mental Education

COMBE, Andrew

Verlag: Adam & Charles Black, London, 1834

Beschreibung

2nd Edition. DESCRIPTION: Three quarter leather binding with marbled paper covered boards. Five ridged spine. Marbled endpapers. Language: English. Book Condition: Good+: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends and edges. Rubbing to spine with tarnished gilt. Tightly bound with clean intact endpapers and strong hinges. Lightly tanned unmarked pages. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages [viii], 385. Size: 12mo (large) 20cm by 12cm. AUTHOR: ANDREW COMBE (1797-1847), Scottish physiologist, was born in Edinburgh, and was a younger brother of George Combe He served an apprenticeship in a surgery, and in 1817 passed at Surgeons Hall He proceeded to Paris to complete his medical studies, and whilst there he investigated phrenology on anatomical principles He became convinced of the truth of the new science, and, as he acquired much skill in the dissection of the brain, he subsequently gave additional interest to the lectures of his brother George, by his practical demonstrations of the convolutions He began to practise in 1823 during which he assisted in editing the Phrenological Journal and contributed a number of articles to it, defended phrenology before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, published his Observations on Mental Derangement (1831), and prepared the greater portion of his Principles of Physiology Applied to Health and Education, which was issued in 1834, and immediately obtained extensive public favour His biography, written by George Combe, was published In 1850. BOOK RESUME: Excerpt from preface 'The object of the present volume is to lay before the public a plain and intelligible description of the structure and uses of some of the more important organs of the human body, and to show how information of this kind may be usefully applied both to the preservation of health and to the improvement of physical and mental education'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7565

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Titel: The Principles of Physiology; Applied To The...

Verlag: Adam & Charles Black, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1834

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good+

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No DJ