MAYOW (John).

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MAYOW (John).
Tractatus quinque medico-physici. Oxford, E Theatro Scheldoniano, 1674. In-8, granite calf, spine decorated, edges speckled with red (contemporary binding). Waller, n°6392. - Garrison & Morton, n°578. - Heirs of Hippocrates, no. 631. - Krivatsy, n°7653. - Falconer Madan, Oxford books, n°3015. First collective edition, printed on the university presses of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, inaugurated in 1669, it is decorated with a beautiful copper engraved portrait of the author, unsigned, and 6 folding plates. John Mayow (1641-1679) was one of the great English physicians and chemists of the 17th century, famous for his work on the respiratory mechanism. He was one of the first to study the role of air in respiration and combustion, and understood the existence of an important substance in the air, which he named spiritu nitro-aereo - oxygen - long before Priestley and Lavoisier's seminal research on the subject in the 1770s. The edition brings together the only five treatises written by the author. In addition to De respiratione and De rachitide, both published in 1668, there are the following three unpublished treatises: De sal-nitro & spiritu nitro-aereo, De respiratione fœtus in utero et ovo, devoted to the respiration of the fetus, and De motu musculari et spiritibus animalibus, which is said to be the first description of mitral stenosis, a cardiovascular disease. Freckles. Rubbing at the binding.
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