integrative action of the nervous system
By: by Charles S. Sherrington.
Series: Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures
Publisher: A. Constable
Published: 1906
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Psychophysiology.; Nervous System -- physiology.; Psychophysiology.; Nervous system.
Notes: Includes index.

Reprinted by Constable in 1911. Also published in several printings by C. Scribner's Sons, New York, and Yale University Press.

Garrison and Morton 1431: "Sherrington insisted that the essential function of the nervous system was the co-ordination of activities of the various parts of the organism. His work on the nervous system, especially his experimental studies of reflex action has had a profound influence upon modern physiology. He shared the Nobel Prize with Adrian in 1932." In 1904 Sherrington delivered his Silliman lectures at Yale, in which he expounded his early research on the nervous system. This work embodies those lectures, and it became a great classic in its field, marking the foundation of modern neurophysiology.

This is in fact the first edition, although Garrison and Morton cites the American edition published at New Haven. Although the English and American editions were printed simultaneously in America, examination of the English and American publishing records shows that the English edition was published in October 1906, and the American on December 8th 1906. The book went through several editions, but the first edition of such an important if vernal work remains rare to the point of being practically unobtainable.

Bibliography: p. [395]-411.

GM 1432.