Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
Papers relating to the Pituitary Body, Hypothalamus, and Parasympathetic Nervous System. 99 text illustrations. 8vo, later cloth with original backstrip and covers laid down; preliminaries lightly dampwrinkled. Springfield, 1932

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first edition. "Cushing advanced the theory that the hypothalamus is responsible for the development of peptic ulcer . . . This work contains his four principal contributions to pituitary-hypothalamic interrelationships, including a reprint of his description of pituitary basophilism"--Garrison-Morton 3552 (see also 3904). Cushing Society 20; Heirs of Hippocrates 2273; Norman 556.