On the necessity for contracting cavities between the venous trunks and the ventricles of the heart
Subtitle: on the use of venous sinuses in the head : on the wonderful provision made for the transition from the foetal to the breathing state, on palpitation, on death and on life, with reflections on the treatment of animals
Contributors: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publisher: Printed by T. McCleish and Co. for William Mudie and Darton and Harvey
Published: 1799
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Respiratory System; Embryology; Heart, physiology; Animal Welfare
Notes: Tp verso inscription "To William Gordon on the part of the author"

Item includes foreword in French followed by a preface in English, and includes "Specimen academicum inaugurale sistens theses aliquot medicas" in Latin submitted  to Leiden University July 1799.

This copy includes three copies in two different versions of the postscript addenda dated Edinburgh 21 J. 1800, concerning placental blood supply.

Thesis (Doc.) - Leiden (1799)

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