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HALES, STEPHEN. Statical Essays: Containing Vegetable Statics [Haemastatics]. 19 engraved plates in Volume 1 (lightly offsetting onto facing pages). [6], x, [4], 376; [10], xxii, [26], 354, [22] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf with morocco lettering pieces, front covers loose, Volume 1 spine chipped at bottom; cloth slipcase. Bookplates of Robert Mascall, W. F. D'Arley, Edward Barrell Curteis, and the pathologist E. B. Krumbhaar. London: Wilson and Nichol et al., 1769; 1769
Fourth and third editions, respectively, of Hales's pioneering works on plant physiology and blood pressure, which he was the first to measure using a manometer of his own invention. "His work is the greatest single contribution to our knowledge of the vascular system after Harvey, and led to the development of the blood-pressure measuring instruments now in universal use"--Garrison-Morton 765. Grolier/Horblit 45a-b; Norman 970; Printing and the Mind of Man 189 (all citing 1727-33 original editions).
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