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Medico-physical works: a translation of the Tractatus quinque medico-physici, printed in the Sheldonian Theatre in 1674

Title: Medico-physical works: a translation of the Tractatus quinque medico-physici, printed in the Sheldonian Theatre in 1674, re-issued by permission of the Alembic Club of Edinburgh to commemorate the experiments by which Mayow ... first proved air to be a mixture of two kinds of gases ...
Author: Mayow, John, 1641-1679.
Publication: Oxford, [Oxford Univeristy Press] 1926.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Old) (Mayow, J. Medico-physical works)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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2 p. l., iii-xxiii (i) p., 1 l., 331 p. front. (port.), plates.; 12mo.

Series Statement

Old Ashmolean reprints. v

Subject

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2 plates printed on both sides.
Contains facsim. t.-p. of the original Latin ed.: Tractatus quinque medico-physici ... Studio Joh. Mayow ... Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1674.
"We have confined ourselves to the work of translation and have added nothing in the way of commentary or criticism."--Pref. signed A.C.B.; L.D. [i.e., A.C. Brown; Leonard Dobbin.]

Contents

Preface. On sal nitrum and nitro-aërial spirit.--On respiration.--On the respiration of the fœtus in the uterus and in the egg.--On muscular motion and animal spirits.--On rickets.

Call Number

*KP (Old) (Mayow, J. Medico-physical works)

LCCN

28005150

OCLC

8138814

Author

Mayow, John, 1641-1679.

Title

Medico-physical works: a translation of the Tractatus quinque medico-physici, printed in the Sheldonian Theatre in 1674, re-issued by permission of the Alembic Club of Edinburgh to commemorate the experiments by which Mayow ... first proved air to be a mixture of two kinds of gases ...

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Oxford, [Oxford Univeristy Press] 1926.

Series

Old Ashmolean reprints. v

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Brown, Alexander Crum, 1838-1922. Translator

Dobbin, Leonard, 1858- Translator

Research Call Number

*KP (Old) (Mayow, J. Medico-physical works)

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