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BEAUMONT, WILLIAM. Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, worn, backstrip partly detached, chipped at top; contents foxed, with conspicuous marginal dampstaining throughout. Contemporary signature of John W. Graves of Lowell, Mass., on front cover. Boston, 1834
first edition of the first accurate scientific study of the process of gastric digestion; second issue, with cancel title bearing 1834 Boston imprint. Norman 152. Garrison-Morton 989; Grolier/Horblit 10; Heirs of Hippocrates 1411; Rutkow GS9 (all citing 1833 Plattsburgh original edition).
