Experimental inquiries : part the first [-third] (v.2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Experimental inquiries : part the first [-third] (v.2)
Classmark: Health Sciences Historical Collection SC.2
Creator(s): Hewson, William (1739-1774)
Additional creator(s): Falconar, Magnus (1754-1778) (Other)
Related people: Falconar, Magnus
Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1772-77
Language: English
Size and medium: 3 v. (xvi, 223 p.; xvi, 239 p., 6 leaves of plates ; xxiii, 144, [8] p., 4 leaves of plates)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/169467
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010443099705181
Description
Part the first. Being a second edition of an inquiry into the properties of the blood. With remarks on some of its morbid appearances: and an appendix, relating to the discovery of the lymphatic system in birds, fish, and the animals called amphibious.
Part the second. Containing a description of the lymphatic system in the human subject, and in other animals... Together with observations on the lymph, and the changes which it undergoes in some diseases.
Part the third. Containing a description of the red particles of the blood in the human subject and in other animals; with an account of the structure and offices of the lymphatic glands, of the thymus glands, and of the spleen; being the remaining part of the late observations of the late Mr. William Hewson by Magnus Falconar.
Imprint varies: [pt. 2] J. Johnson, 1774. --[pt. 3] T. Longman, 1777.
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