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BOYLE, Robert (1627-1691). Memoirs for the Natural History of Humane Blood. London: Samuel Smith, 1683/4. 8° (160 x 94mm). (Title slightly browned and frayed at margin, A2 with part of margin torn away, A6 with several cuts at lower margin, H3 holed with slight loss.) Contemporary calf (rubbed, spine lacking). Provenance: John Jackson of Warrington.
FIRST EDITION, second issue with altered date on the cancel title intended to protect Boyle from charges of plagiarism. His book marked 'the beginning of physiological chemistry, introducing methods which have since become universal. He analyzed the chemicals in human blood and studied their proportions, as well as investigating the differences between "the serous and the red part of humane blood", blood's "chymical uses", and the difference between human and various animal bloods' (Norman). GM 861; Fulton 146; Norman 308; Wing B-3993.
FIRST EDITION, second issue with altered date on the cancel title intended to protect Boyle from charges of plagiarism. His book marked 'the beginning of physiological chemistry, introducing methods which have since become universal. He analyzed the chemicals in human blood and studied their proportions, as well as investigating the differences between "the serous and the red part of humane blood", blood's "chymical uses", and the difference between human and various animal bloods' (Norman). GM 861; Fulton 146; Norman 308; Wing B-3993.
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