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BEAUMONT, WILLIAM. The Physiology of Digestion, with Experiments on the Gastric Juice. Burlington, [Vt.]: Chauncey Goodrich, 1847. 2nd ed. Small 8vo. 303, [1] pp., with several text illus. Orig. cloth. Binding fine. Text sound, but heavily foxed. Bookplate removed from inside front cover. $500.00
Very scarce; 1500 copies of this edition were printed (versus 3,000 each for the Plattsburgh 1833 and Boston 1834 editions). Grolier, American One Hundred #38 (Plattsburgh ed.). Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine, # 61. Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Science, # 38. Howes B291. Generally considered the most original American contribution to medical science in the 19th century and the most important work on the subject before that of Pavlov.