[NERVOUS SYSTEM]. HALL, Marshall (1790-1857). On the reflex function of the medulla oblongata and medulla spinalis. Offprint from: Philosophical Transactions, 123 (1833). London: Richard Taylor, 1833. 4o. Original moir cloth (rebacked). Provenance: Joseph Henry Green (1791-1863), doctor at St Thomas' Hospital (presentation inscription on half-title: "J.H. Green, F.R.S. with the Authors best compliments"); Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. "Hall established the difference between volitional action and unconscious reflexes". (Garrison-Morton 1359); Norman 972. -- HALL. New Memoir on the Nervous System. London; Paris: Baillire, 1843. 4o. Original black cloth, uncut. Provenance: Willard Parker (1800-1884), the first American surgeon to operate for appendicitis (signature). FIRST EDITION. A summary of Hall's experiments on reflex action and the spinal cord. Norman 973. -- MacEWEN, William (1848-1924). Pyogenic infective diseases of the brain and spinal cord. Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1893. 8o. Numerous text illustrations. Original green cloth. FIRST EDITION. The founder of neurosurgery, together with Harvey Cushing and Fedor Krause. Garrison-Morton 4872; Norman 1404. -- ADRIAN, Edgar Douglas (1889-1977), first baron Adrian. The Basis of Sensation: The Action of the Sense Organs. London: Christophers, [1928]. 8o. Original turquoise cloth. FIRST EDITION. Adrian won, with Sherrington, the 1932 Nobel Prize for their work on the physiology of the nervous system. Garrison-Morton 1308; Norman 13. -- ADRIAN. The Mechanism of Nervous Action. Electrical studies of the neurone. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Humphrey Milton, Oxford University Press, 1932. 8o. Original blue cloth. Provenance: Frederic Schiller Lee (1859-1939), City University, New York (signature); Walter R. Bett (1903-1968), medical historian (bookplate; autograph note from the author tipped to front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. Norman 14. -- ADRIAN. The Physical Background of Perception. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947. 8o. Original blue cloth, printed gray dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Norman 15. -- BASTIAN, Henry Charlton (1837-1915). "On the various forms of loss of speech in cerebral disease." In: British and foreign medico-chirurgical review 43 (January-April 1869, pp. 209-236; 470-492. London: John Churchill & Sons, 1869. 8o. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Provenance: Library of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland (stamps). FIRST EDITION, journal issue. "Bastian's first important paper on aphasia. His axiom 'We think in words' explains his whole work on the subject." (Garrison-Morton 4622); Norman 131. -- BASTIAN. "On the symptomatology of total transverse lesions of the spinal cord; with special reference to the condition of various reflexes." In: Medico-chirurgical transactions 73 (1890), pp. 151-217. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 8o. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, gilt-medallion on front cover. Provenance: Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society (stamp). FIRST EDITION, journal issue. Garrison-Morton 4577; Norman 132. -- BROWN-SQUARD, Charles douard (1817-1894). Course of Lectures on the Physiology and Pathology of the Central Nervous System. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860. 8o. Original blind-stamped black cloth. FIRST EDITION. Brown-Squard's lectures summarized his twenty years of work on the nervous system. They were delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in May 1958, and were subsequently published in the Lancet. Norman 360. -- JELLIFFE, Smith Ely (1866-1945), and William Alanson WHITE (1870-1937). Disease of the nervous system. A text-book of neurology and psychiatry. Philadelphia & New York: Lea & Febiger, 1915. Large 8o. Numerous text illustrations. Original brown cloth. Provenance: Smith Ely Jelliffe (bookplate, signature on title, 27 laid in typed slips containing extracts of reviews, and a 2-page typed letter signed from T.M. Taylor, of Lea & Febiger, to the author). FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 4599; Norman 1160. -- HAMMOND, William Alexander (1828-1900). A Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System. New York: D. Appleton, 1871. 8o. Original terracotta cloth. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST AMERICAN TREATISE ON NEUROLOGY. Garrison-Morton 4542; Norman 986. -- JACKSON, John Hughlings (1835-1911). The Croonian lectures on evolution and dissolution of the nervous system. Offprint from: British Medical Journal (29 March, 5 April and 12 April 1884). London: British Medical Association [1884]. Original printed self-wrappers, modern cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. Norman 1148. -- JACKSON. Convulsive seizures. [New York: Wood, 1890]. Extract from Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs 6, no. 3. Modern brown boards, cloth spine. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. "Jackson contributed to three major areas of neurology: epilepsy, aphasia and the doctrine of levels of neurological function. The present paper--one of over 300 he produced in his lifetime--was devoted primarily to epilepsy." (Norman 1149). -- RIVERS, William Halse (1864-1922) and Henry HEAD (1861-1940). A human experiment in nerve division. Offprint from Brain 31 (1908). London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson [1908?]. 8o. Original blue printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. "In 1903 Head had the superficial ramus of his own left radial nerve sectioned and, with River's assistance, thoroughly investigated the loss and gradual restoration of sensation. His study led to a reclassification of the sensory pathways." (Garrison-Morton 1302); Norman 1835. -- BEARD, George Miller (1839-1883). A Practical Treatise on Sea-sickness: Its nature and treatment. New York: E.B. Treat, 1880. 8o. Original printed brown cloth. FIRST EDITION. Beard was the first to describe seasickness as a disorder of the central nervous sytem rather than of the digestive organs. Norman 146. -- RIDDLE, Oscar (1877-1968); Robert W. BATES; Simon W. DYKSHORN. The preparation, identification and assay of prolactin - a hormone of the anterior pituitary. Offprint from: American journal of physiology 105 (1933). [N.p., n.d.] Original tan printed wrappers. Provenance: Herbert M. Evans, discoverer of the growth hormone of the anterior pituitary (stamp). FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. Garrison-Morton 1171; Norman 1832. -- HORSLEY, Sir Victor Alexander Haden (1857-1916). The function of the so-called motor area of the brain. Offprint from: British Medical journal. London: British Medical Association, 1909. 4o. Text halftones. Rebound in plain paper wrappers, title and presentation inscription "With the author's compliments" from original wrappers mounted on front wrapper. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue, PRESENTATION COPY. "Horsley demonstrated that removal of the precentral area in man abolished athetosis." (Garrison-Morton 4882); Norman 1106. -- SHAW, Alexander (1804-1890). Narrative of the Discoveries of Sir Charles Bell in the Nervous System. London: Longman & others, 1839. 8o. Contemporary half-calf, paper boards. FIRST EDITION. A defence of Bell's priority in the Bell-Magendie law of the function of the dorsal spinal roots, by Bell's brother-in-law. Norman 1936. (19)