Published by Springer & Leiden University Press, New York & Leiden, 1969
Seller: Letters Bookshop, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [416pp]: xvi, 400 (last leaf blank); gilt grey linen, lacking jacket; 230 x 158 x 32 mm. Proceedings of the Boerhaave Courses for postgraduate medical education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leiden. Ex libris: Henry Zoltan Movat, with his stamp on pastedown, tp & top edge. Head of the Division of Experimental Pathology at the Banting Institute Toronto (1968-82), Dr Movat (1923-95), an emigree from Romania (1950), is noted for his development of Movat's Pentachrome Stain (1955) as well as pioneering experimental work in inflammation & bradykinin.