An Experimental Inquiry into the Principles of Nutrition and the Digestive Process. With an introductory essay by William C. Rose.
1959EEG1205Urbana:: University of Illinois Press 1959. 1959. Series: Univ. of Illinois History of Science Society 1. 8vo. xxvi 2 48 pp. Two-tone olive-grey and black gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. A facsimile reprint of the 1803 edition. Young's medical thesis from the University of Edinburgh. "Young one of the first American experimental physiologists showed the solvent principle in the gastric juice to be an acid but wrongly inferred that it was phosphoric acid. He also deduced the association and synchrony between gastric juice and saliva." See: Garrison and Morton 982. "In one year from the time he graduated he died in Hagerstown June 8 1804 in the twenty-second year of his age. A tradition in his family states that the cause of his death as well as that of his sisters was tuberculosis." – Howard A. Kelly American Medical Biographies. University of Illinois Press, 1959. hardcover books
