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NERVOUS SYSTEM]. HALL, Marshall (1790-1857). On the reflex function of the medulla oblongata and medulla spinalis . Offprint from: Philosophical Transactions , 123 (1833). London: Richard Taylor 1833. 4 o. Original moir cloth (rebacked). Provenance : Joseph Henry Green (1791-1863), doctor at St Thomas' Hospital (presentation inscription on half-title: "J.H. Green, F.R.S. with the Authors best compliments"); Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. "Hall established the difference between volitional action and unconscious reflexes". (Garrison-Morton 1359); Norman 972. -- HALL. New Memoir on the Nervous System . London; Paris: Baillire, 1843. 4 o. Original black cloth, uncut. Provenance : Willard Parker (1800-1884), the first American surgeon to operate for appendicitis (signature). FIRST EDITION. A summary of Hall's experiments on reflex action and the spinal cord. Norman 973. -- MacEWEN, William (1848-1924). Pyogenic infective diseases of the brain and spinal cord . Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1893. 8 o. Numerous text illustrations. Original green cloth. FIRST EDITION. The founder of neurosurgery, together with Harvey Cushing and Fedor Krause. Garrison-Morton 4872; Norman 1404. -- ADRIAN, Edgar Douglas (1889-1977), first baron Adrian. The Basis of Sensation: The Action of the Sense Organs . London: Christophers, [1928]. 8 o. Original turquoise cloth. FIRST EDITION. Adrian won, with Sherrington, the 1932 Nobel Prize for their work on the physiology of the nervous system. Garrison-Morton 1308; Norman 13. -- ADRIAN. The Mechanism of Nervous Action. Electrical studies of the neurone . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Humphrey Milton, Oxford University Press, 1932. 8 o. Original blue cloth. Provenance : Frederic Schiller Lee (1859-1939), City University, New York (signature); Walter R. Bett (1903-1968), medical historian (bookplate; autograph note from the author tipped to front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. Norman 14. -- ADRIAN. The Physical Background of Perception . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947. 8 o. Original blue cloth, printed gray dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION. Norman 15. -- BASTIAN, Henry Charlton (1837-1915). "On the various forms of loss of speech in cerebral disease." In: British and foreign medico-chirurgical review 43 (January-April 1869, pp. 209-236; 470-492. London: John Churchill & Sons, 1869. 8 o. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Provenance : Library of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland (stamps). FIRST EDITION, journal issue. "Bastian's first important paper on aphasia. His axiom 'We think in words' explains his whole work on the subject." (Garrison-Morton 4622); Norman 131. -- BASTIAN. "On the symptomatology of total transverse lesions of the spinal cord; with special reference to the condition of various reflexes." In: Medico-chirurgical transactions 73 (1890), pp. 151-217. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 8 o. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, gilt-medallion on front cover. Provenance : Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society (stamp). FIRST EDITION, journal issue. Garrison-Morton 4577; Norman 132. -- BROWN-SQUARD, Charles douard (1817-1894). Course of Lectures on the Physiology and Pathology of the Central Nervous System . Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860. 8 o. Original blind-stamped black cloth. FIRST EDITION. Brown-Squard's lectures summarized his twenty years of work on the nervous system. They were delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in May 1958, and were subsequently published in the Lancet . Norman 360. -- JELLIFFE, Smith Ely (1866-1945), and William Alanson WHITE (1870-1937). Disease of the nervous system. A text-book of neurology and psychiatry . Philadelphia & New York: Lea & Febiger, 1915. Large 8 o. Numerous text illustrations. Original brown cloth. Provenance : Smith Ely Jelliffe (bookplate, signature on title, 27 laid in typed slips containing extracts of reviews, and a 2-page typed letter signed from