Observations on the structure and functions of the spinal cord
Publisher Information: London: Samuel Highley, 1837.
Grainger, Richard D. (1801-65). Observations on the structure and function of the spinal cord. vii, [3], [ix]-x, 159, [1]pp., plus 8-page publisher’s catalogues in the front and back. Plate. London: Samuel Highley, 1837. 228 x 141 mm. Original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine with printed label (worn), evidence of label removal on front and rear pastedowns. Marginal dampstaining on the plate, cancelled library stamps on the title, but very good. From the library of British neurologist Geoffrey Jefferson (1886-1961), with his bookplate and extensive notes on the rear endpapers.
First Edition. Grainger “brought together many of the isolated facts concerning spinal cord physiology and published these in one of the most concise summaries of neurophysiology of the early nineteenth century” (McHenry, Garrison’s History of Neurology, p. 200). He supported Marshall Hall’s theories on reflex action, and attempted to prove them anatomically by locating the reflex function in the small fibers located deep within the spinal cord. This copy is from the library of Geoffrey Jefferson (see Garrison-Morton.com 3017), a neurologist and pioneering neurosurgeon, who wrote a detailed account of his purchase on the rear pastedown; his extensive notes on Grainger’s monograph are on the rear free endpaper.
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