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185719319Boston: Printed by Edward Mudge & Son 1857. A later edition. A little soiling and wear; some fly-specking to the rear wrapper; a little browning from the publisher's glue mounting the inserted leaf; a very good copy. Original printed green wrappers 7.38 x 4.63 inches 1-2 2 3-16 pages. Growing out of a project of lectures begun by pioneering physician Harriot Hunt in the 1830s instituted in 1848 and incorporated in 1850 this organization sought "to promote among women a knowledge of the Human System of the Laws of Life and Health and of the means of preventing and relieving sickness and suffering." Despite substantial social pressure against the Institute the organization provided lectures and instruction in anatomy physiology and hygiene. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz in Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America New York 2002 notes that such figures as Paulina Wright Davis early active in abortion circles and women's property rights had appeared before the Institute in the 1850s. Publication date from the first page of the front wrapper; inserted printed leaf mounted after the title page with the 1850 Act of Incorporation on the recto and the "List of Apparatus Belonging to the Institute" on the verso. The 21 educational items range from "Model of a Woman full size capable of dissection" to a wired and mounted female skeleton a prepared three-month fetus to a wax model of a hand with erysipelas and a phrenological bust. This 1857 version of the Constitution preceded by separately-published versions from 1849 and 1851--each located in a single copy only as with a couple of early related Institute publications. No Ladies' Physiological Institute items located in the Atwater Catalog. Printed by Edward Mudge & Son, unknown books
51581bdNational Academy of Sceinces - National Research Council March 1956. Publication 468. Octavo paperbound stiff stapled wrappers 24 pp. Very Good with light sunning to edges and former-owner stamp. From Abstract: This report has been prepared by the Physiology Group of the Panel on Underwater Swimmers as a general review of the current status of underwater physiology. In this discussion of existing information emphasis is placed upon the interrelationship of various factors and upon a number of important questions which appear at present to be unanswered. Large new areas of underwater physiology have been opened by recent studies and should be susceptible to further investigation. The possibility now exists of a breakthrough in one or omore of these areas. There is reason to expect that it will not always be neccessary to base predictions of potential divind depth and duratio upon the physiological barriers which now restrict underwater activity. unknown books
1989186005Accra: Ghana Universities Press 1989. Pamphlet. 31p. softbound booklet in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps; has just a touch of foxing and edgewear a very good copy. Ghana Universities Press unknown books
