Muscular Contraction and the Control of Reflex Movement by Fulton, John F - 1926
by Fulton, John F
Muscular Contraction and the Control of Reflex Movement
by Fulton, John F
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Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co., 1926. First edition.
1926 LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY INSCRIBED BY JOHN FULTON TO FOUNDER OF THE FALLON CLINIC.
9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth boards, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, bookplate of NSR Maluf and hand stamp of Fallon Clinic Library on front paste-down, inscribed on front flyleaf "To John Fallon from the flattered author, J.F. Fulton/Oxford/March, 1929". Corners lightly bumped, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
GARRISON-MORTON No. 663, "A detailed study of the physiology of skeletal muscle. A valuable historical introduction will be found on pp. 3-55, and the book includes an extensive bibliography."
JOHN FARQUHAR FULTON (1899 – 1960) was an American neurophysiologist and historian of science. He received numerous degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He taught at Magdalen College School of Medicine at Oxford and later became the youngest Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale University. Starting in 1921, he studied neurophysiology at Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a B.A. with first class honors in 1923. Then, as a Christopher Welch Scholar at Magdalen College, he received an M.A. and a D.Phil. in 1925. He then received an M.D. from Harvard in 1927. After his time at Harvard, he focused his studies on neurosurgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston under Harvey Cushing. Muscular Contraction and the Reflex Control of Movement (offered here) was his first book. Dr. John Fallon was founder of the Fallon Clinic, Worcester, MA.
1926 LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY INSCRIBED BY JOHN FULTON TO FOUNDER OF THE FALLON CLINIC.
9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth boards, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, bookplate of NSR Maluf and hand stamp of Fallon Clinic Library on front paste-down, inscribed on front flyleaf "To John Fallon from the flattered author, J.F. Fulton/Oxford/March, 1929". Corners lightly bumped, very good in custom archival mylar cover.
GARRISON-MORTON No. 663, "A detailed study of the physiology of skeletal muscle. A valuable historical introduction will be found on pp. 3-55, and the book includes an extensive bibliography."
JOHN FARQUHAR FULTON (1899 – 1960) was an American neurophysiologist and historian of science. He received numerous degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University. He taught at Magdalen College School of Medicine at Oxford and later became the youngest Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale University. Starting in 1921, he studied neurophysiology at Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a B.A. with first class honors in 1923. Then, as a Christopher Welch Scholar at Magdalen College, he received an M.A. and a D.Phil. in 1925. He then received an M.D. from Harvard in 1927. After his time at Harvard, he focused his studies on neurosurgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston under Harvey Cushing. Muscular Contraction and the Reflex Control of Movement (offered here) was his first book. Dr. John Fallon was founder of the Fallon Clinic, Worcester, MA.
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- Book Condition Used
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- Edition First edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher The Williams & Wilkins Co.
- Place of Publication Baltimore
- Date Published 1926
- Keywords medicine; science; physiology; signed; neuroscience; Garrison-Morton; illustrations