[Rarebooks] FS - Hales, Statical Essay, 1733

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*HALES, Stephen, B.D. F.R.S., /STATICAL ESSAYS: CONTAINING 
HAEMASTATICKS; OR AN ACCOUNT OF SOME HYDRAULICK AND HYDROSTATICAL 
EXPERIMENTS made on the Blood-Vessels of Animals. Also An Account of 
some Experiments on Stones in the Kidneys and Bladders; with an Enquiry 
in to the Nature of those anomolous Concretions. To which is added An 
Appendix, containing Observations and Experiments relating to several 
Subjects in the first Volume. With an Index to both Volumes./**/ VOLUME 
II./*

W. Innys and R. Manby at the West-End of St. Paul's; and T. Woodward, at 
the Half-Moon between the Temple-Gates, Fleet Street, London. 1733. 1st 
edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, Table of Contents [pp. 22], 361, index.

Hales (1677-1761) was an English clergyman who made major contributions 
to a range of scientific fields including botany, pneumatic chemistry 
and physiology. He invented several devices, including a ventilator, a 
pneumatic trough and a surgical forceps for the removal of bladder 
stones. The DNB describes this title as "second
only to those of Harvey in the inauguration of modern physiology". G&M 
765 echoes this accolade, calling this title "the greatest single 
contribution to the knowledge of the vascular system after Harvey, and 
led to the development of the blood-pressure measuring instruments now 
in universal use." See also Heirs of Hippocrates 494 ("his work gave . 
the first quantitative estimates of blood pressure"), Notable Medical 
Books, p. 109, Bibliotheca Osleriana 1081. Hales has a monument in 
Westminster Abbey.

Our offering is volume II and is complete in itself (the preceding 
title, "Vegetable Staticks", was first published in 1727). Presented in 
a handsome full leather re-bind with gilt rules to the boards and spine, 
and a morocco spine label. The endpapers have been re-newed. Contents 
surprisingly bright and unmarked.
     
Price: $1,250.00.

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