STILLING, (B.) — Physiologische, pathologische und medicinisch-practische Untersuchungen über die Spinal-Irritation.

Leipzig, O. Wigand, 1840. 8vo. W. 4 ills. Contemp. black paste paper brds., outer hinges chipped / rubbed. Corners bumped / dam. Spine ends some dam. Paper shelfmark on spine. [...]. (XI, 545 pp.). (Some unimportant foxing, first and last leaves some more foxing.). Hirsch V, 431/2: '1840 veröffentlichte Stilling sein berühmten...Untersuchungen über die Spinal-Irritation, worin zum ersten Male von ' vasometrischen Nerven' gesprochen wird.': Garrison, p. 546: 'The term 'vasomotor' was first employed by B. Stilling.': Clarke & O' Malley, pp. 270 -275 and pp. 833 - 837: '...the first person to use new methods of examining the spinal cord in detail was the German surgeon and anatomist Stilling.': Haymaker & Schiller 83: '...he was already in 1840 postulating sympathetic 'vasomotor nerves', before Claude Bernard.': First edition.