![PAVLOV, Ivan Petrovich (1849-1936). Lektsii o rabote glavnykh pishevaritel'nykh zhelez [Lectures on the Function of the Principal Digestive Glands]. St Petersburg: I.N. Kushnerev i Ko, 1897.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/CKS/2001_CKS_06456_0051_000(030310).jpg?w=1)
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PAVLOV, Ivan Petrovich (1849-1936). Lektsii o rabote glavnykh pishevaritel'nykh zhelez [Lectures on the Function of the Principal Digestive Glands]. St Petersburg: I.N. Kushnerev i Ko, 1897.
8° (179 x 131mm). One full-page illustration and graphs. (13/7-14/1 slightly marked.) Original printed green wrappers bound in 20th-century roan-backed boards, cloth corners, spine lettered in gilt, (spine rubbed and scuffed, cracking on joints, wrappers trimmed, upper wrapper crudely repaired and the lower with small tear and hole). Provenance: unobtrusive small inkstamps to wrappers and lower pastedown.
FIRST EDITION OF PAVLOV'S CELEBRATED LECTURES ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION, the subject for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1904. Pavlov's great achievement as a physiologist was to replace the traditional vivisectionist approach (which studied discrete elements of an organism in isolation), with a methodology which viewed the organism holistically, i.e. as an entity whose individual elements functioned together and were influenced by each other, and which was, in turn, influenced by its environment. Whilst recognising the importance of the physiological knowledge acquired through vivisectionist methods, Pavlov felt that the possibilities of those methods would soon be exhausted, and that a new approach was required, which fully acknowledged the complexity of a given organism. Following research into the physiology of circulation and the mechanisms which govern it, he turned his attention to the regulation of the digestive glands in response to external influences and stimuli. Bringing his surgical knowledge and experimental ingenuity to bear on the problem, he created fistulae -- such as that to the stomach illustrated on p.19 -- which enabled him to study the mechanisms of digestion and their control, and to stimulate them artificially. In his Lektsii ..., Pavlov 'made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion' (Garrison and Morton), and conclusively demonstrated the depths of the insights that his methodology could give. Garrison and Morton 1022; Grolier Science 83; PMM 385.
8° (179 x 131mm). One full-page illustration and graphs. (13/7-14/1 slightly marked.) Original printed green wrappers bound in 20th-century roan-backed boards, cloth corners, spine lettered in gilt, (spine rubbed and scuffed, cracking on joints, wrappers trimmed, upper wrapper crudely repaired and the lower with small tear and hole). Provenance: unobtrusive small inkstamps to wrappers and lower pastedown.
FIRST EDITION OF PAVLOV'S CELEBRATED LECTURES ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION, the subject for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1904. Pavlov's great achievement as a physiologist was to replace the traditional vivisectionist approach (which studied discrete elements of an organism in isolation), with a methodology which viewed the organism holistically, i.e. as an entity whose individual elements functioned together and were influenced by each other, and which was, in turn, influenced by its environment. Whilst recognising the importance of the physiological knowledge acquired through vivisectionist methods, Pavlov felt that the possibilities of those methods would soon be exhausted, and that a new approach was required, which fully acknowledged the complexity of a given organism. Following research into the physiology of circulation and the mechanisms which govern it, he turned his attention to the regulation of the digestive glands in response to external influences and stimuli. Bringing his surgical knowledge and experimental ingenuity to bear on the problem, he created fistulae -- such as that to the stomach illustrated on p.19 -- which enabled him to study the mechanisms of digestion and their control, and to stimulate them artificially. In his Lektsii ..., Pavlov 'made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion' (Garrison and Morton), and conclusively demonstrated the depths of the insights that his methodology could give. Garrison and Morton 1022; Grolier Science 83; PMM 385.
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