Product Description
Early 20th century landmark work on the intricate nervous system and how it responds to stimuli, including via reflexive action and perceived sensation.
Sherrington received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1932 for his groundbreaking research and findings on the nervous system.
Condition: Very Good+ BOOK INFO Award Provenance: Award pastedown on FFEP for the University of Durham, College of Medicine.
A prize for first class honors in Senior Anatomy awarded to William Andrew Herrington for the 1913-1914 session.
Signed by the college president and course lecturer.
Published in 1911 by Constable and Company Limited in London.
Second UK edition, first printing.
Bound by W.
E.
Franklin of Newcastle, England in beautiful full calf prize binding.
Boards with triple fillet paneling, two in gilt and one in blind.
Corner gilt fleurons.
Top cover with centralized gilt medallion representing the University of Durham's College of Medicine.
Spine with five raised gilt rolled bands separating compartments elaborately tooled and ruled in gilt with a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label in compartment two.
All board edges gilt.
All page edges marbled.
Dentelles in blind.
Marbled endpapers.
A lovely prize binding.
Octavo (8vo), xvi, 411, [1, blank] pp.
, bound without half-title.
Numerous within text illustrations, charts and diagrams.
Topics include simple reflexes, types of stimuli, nervous system integration, after-discharge, reflex-arcs, reflexes of various body parts, proprio-spinal tracts, relationship between stimulus intensity and reflex action, interaction between reflexes, compound reflexes from overlapping stimuli over time, reflexes as adapted reactions, motor cortex, physiological position and dominance of the brain, nervous system integration with bodily movement, and more.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857 - 1952) was a British neurophysiologist.
His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a system involving connected neurons (the neuron doctrine), and the ways in which signal transmission between neurons can be potentiated or depotentiated.
Sherrington himself coined the word synapse to define the connection between two neurons.
His book The Integrative Action of the Nervous System is a synthesis of this work, in recognition of which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932 (along with Edgar Adrian).
In addition to his work in physiology, Sherrington did research in histology, bacteriology, and pathology.
He was president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s.
CONDITION REPORT The book is in Very Good+ condition.
Bound without half-title.
Rebound in prize binding with refreshed endpapers.
Exterior and binding: Slight bowing of boards, firm hinges and joints, tight binding.
Light rubbing to boards, spine and extremities.
Some soiling to leather.
Spine slightly sunned.
Gilt work is in excellent shape.
Leather is supple.
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