Starling E H (36 results)
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Published by Journal of Physiology, 1901
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Add to basketOriginal Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Separate Edition. Octavo. 13pp. A very good copy in salmon wraps. Uncut . unread. Dust soil.
Bird Study the Journal of the British Trust for Ornithology Volume 20 Number 3 September 1973 / H Milne and L H Campbell "Sea-ducks" / P J Dare and A J Mercer "the Oystercatcher" / J A Webster "Barn Owl" / M de L Brooke "Birds of the Shiant Islands" / Peter Corkhill "Puffins" / H E M Dott ",Fulmars" / Mary J Taitt "the Starling"
J J M Flegg and Kenneth Williamson (Editors) / H Milne and L H Campbell "Sea-ducks" / P J Dare and A J Mercer "the Oystercatcher" / J A Webster "Barn Owl" / M de L Brooke "Birds of the Shiant Islands" / Peter Corkhill "Puffins" / H E M Dott ",Fulmars" / Mary J Taitt "the Starling"
Published by The British Trust for Ornithology, 1973
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 68 pages. H Milne and L H Campbell "Sea-ducks" / P J Dare and A J Mercer "the Oystercatcher" / J A Webster "Barn Owl" / M de L Brooke "Birds of the Shiant Islands" / Peter Corkhill "Puffins" / H E M Dott ",Fulmars" / Mary J Taitt "the Starling" (SL#87).
Lectures on the Comparative Pathology of Inflammation
Metchnikoff, Elias; Starling, F. A. (TRN); Starling, E. H. (TRN)
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Lectures on the Comparative Pathology of Inflammation
Metchnikoff, Elias; Starling, F. A. (TRN); Starling, E. H. (TRN)
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A Textbook Of Experimental Physiology Fro Students Of Medicine
Adcock, N. H. and F. O'B. Ellison with A Preface by E. H. Starling
Published by The MacMillan Company of Canada, Toronto, 1909
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Ex-library. This is an ex-library book with a slip tipped in stating such. There aren't any other library markings that I see. There is some wear to the covers including some fading and a couple of minor stains only affecting the cover.
Lectures on the Comparative Pathology of Inflammation
Metchnikoff, Elias; Starling, F. A. (TRN); Starling, E. H. (TRN)
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Lecture Notes On The Comparative Pathology Of Inflammation: Delivered At The Pasteur Institute In 1891 (Classics Of Medicine Library)
Metchnikoff, Elias; Starling, F. A. ; Starling, E. H. (translators)
Published by Gryphon Editions Ltd., 1991
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Add to basketFull Leather. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Numbered Edition. This is copy #2765; nice clean copy; comes with a bookplate w/copy # and previous owner's name laid in (not attached) and "Notes From the Editors" booklet; light brown cowhide leather w/gilt page ends, silk ribbon bookmark; 218 page…s.
Lectures on the Comparative Pathology of Inflammation
Metchnikoff, Elias; Starling, F. A. (TRN); Starling, E. H. (TRN)
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book offers an introduction to human physiology, how the human body functions, grows, and processes nourishment. The author, an expert in the field, has written an accessible and engaging journey through the inner workings of our bodies. Starting with the most basic building block…s of life, cells, this book follows the digestive, circulatory, respiratory, endocrine, and nervous systems to explain how our bodies convert food to energy, pump blood, breathe, regulate hormones, and allow us to move and think. An exploration of the intricate mechanisms of our bodies and the remarkable process of transforming nourishment into life, this book highlights the beauty and complexity of the human body. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.
LECTURES ON THE COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY OF INFLAMMATION: DELIVERED AT THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE IN 1891.
METCHNIKOFF, Elias, F. A. Starling And E. H. Starling ( Trans.).
Published by The Classics Of Medicine Library, New York, 1991
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Add to basketHardcover. 8vo. pp xii, 218. Original publisher's brown leather with decorative gilt at front and gilt lettering at spine. Fine.
Published by John Murray, 1904
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. THE ORIGINAL - Not a Reprint - in very good condition and in the publishers red blind-stamped cloth.128pp. There are 35 illustrations most taken from Mivart's work on the cat.
Published by J. & A. Churchill, 1920
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Add to basketCondition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2100grams,…ISBN.
Published by Piccin, 1959
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Add to basketCondition: Buone. italiano Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, strappi macchie Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, bruniture.
Published by , Piccin Editore, 1959
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Add to basketbrossura. Condition: Poor. Copertina uso tela, usurata al dorso e ai margini, sporca ingiallita. Tagli e pagine sporchi di polvere e ingialliti, con barbe, cucitura allentata. Collana di cardiologia. 1300 Mediocre (Poor) . Book.
Discussion on the Origin of Vertebrates by Gaskell, W.H.; MacBride, E.W.; Starling, E.H.; Goodrich, E.S.; Gadow, H.; Woodward, A. Smith; Dendy, Arthur; Lankester, Ray; Mitchell, P. Chalmers; Gardiner, J. Stanley; Stebbing, T.R.R.; Scott, D.H.
Gaskell, W.H.; MacBride, E.W.; Starling, E.H.; Goodrich, E.S.; Gadow, H.; Woodward, A. Smith; Dendy, Arthur; Lankester, Ray; Mitchell, P. Chalmers; Gardiner, J. Stanley; Stebbing, T.R.R.; Scott, D.H.
Language: English
Published by Linnean Society of London, 1910
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Add to basketPamphlet. Condition: Collectible; Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDOffprint. 1910. Printed by the Linnean Society of London. Fist separate edition. Offprint. Original wrappers. *.
Published by London, Jackson, Fisher, (1836)., 1836
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Add to basketPrint. Original single-sheet steel engraving of a very fine quality. Overall size ca. 215 x 270 mm. Image size ca. 130 x 190 mm. A two-line caption engraved at bottom in elegant handtooled open-face and italic types. Engraved Artist's and Engraver's signatures underneath image. Engraved Publisher's line below. The print is in it…s original state, trimmed and gilded on three sides. It is printed with warmer ink, somewhat more dramatic in mood, with fine, crisp detail, subtlety and elegance. In overall fine condition. Preserved in pH-balanced, acid-free Renaissance archival paper. ~ A delicately executed steel engraving, representing a major illustrative work on 19th century Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor. William Henry Bartlett (born London, 1809) was one of the foremost illustrators of topography of his generation. He travelled extensively throughout Britain, the Americas, and the Middle East, producing his work on location. In 1854 he made his last trip to the Holy Land; he died of fever on board a French ship on his return voyage to England. Bartlett's primary concern was to extract the picturesque aspects of a place and render "lively impressions of actual sights", as he wrote in the preface to "The Nile Boat" (London, 1849). His work became widely known through the numerous engravings after the original drawings and paintings he made. The interest in these engravings today is as much for the exquisite quality of the rendering and presentation of the architecture of the period, as it is for the representation of the landscape. Published in 1836 by Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son & Co. of London, it was originally accompanied by descriptions written by John Carne. Clamshell. ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (illustrator).
Published by Piccin Editore, PADOVA, 1963
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Condition: DISCRETO USATO. XII. ITALIANO Dodicesima edizione riveduta. Traduzione a cura di Giulio Stella. Sovraccoperta lievemente usurata agli angoli, ai margini e alle estremità del dorso, con piccolo strappo alla cima del dorso. Dorso e piatti macchiati. Legatura con titoli solo al dorso leggermente stanca alle estremità e a…gli angoli. Pagine salde alla cerniera, su carta patinata, bruniti i tagli. Presenti illustrazioni nel testo, con didascalia, in bianco e nero. Presenti tavole fuori testo, con illustrazioni in bianco e nero, con didascalia. Numero pagine 1357.
Published by Reprint from Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London Session 122, 1910
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Add to basketpp. (ii), (9)-50. Original wrappers, disbound from a collection of offprints, ex-libris SIR JAMES GRAY FRS (1891-1975) with his signature on the front wrapper and his marginal notes, a very good copy.
Published by London, Jackson, Fisher, (1836)., 1836
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Add to basketPrint. Original single-sheet steel engraving of a very fine quality. Overall size ca. 215 x 270 mm. Image size ca. 130 x 190 mm. A two-line caption engraved at bottom in elegant handtooled open-face and italic types. Engraved Artist's and Engraver's signatures underneath image. Engraved Publisher's line below. The print is in it…s original state, trimmed and gilded on three sides. It is printed with warmer ink, somewhat more dramatic in mood, with fine, crisp detail, subtlety and elegance. In overall fine condition. (Few spots at outermost edge of margin well away from inage.) ~ A delicately executed steel engraving, representing a major illustrative work on 19th century Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor. William Henry Bartlett (born London, 1809) was one of the foremost illustrators of topography of his generation. He travelled extensively throughout Britain, the Americas, and the Middle East, producing his work on location. In 1854 he made his last trip to the Holy Land; he died of fever on board a French ship on his return voyage to England. Bartlett's primary concern was to extract the picturesque aspects of a place and render "lively impressions of actual sights", as he wrote in the preface to "The Nile Boat" (London, 1849). His work became widely known through the numerous engravings after the original drawings and paintings he made. The interest in these engravings today is as much for the exquisite quality of the rendering and presentation of the architecture of the period, as it is for the representation of the landscape. Published in 1836 by Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son & Co. of London, it was originally accompanied by descriptions written by John Carne. Clamshell. ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (illustrator).
Emotional management picture book: Feigal is angry with smoke (Hardcover)(Chinese Edition)
[ YING ] LUO BO TE SI TA LIN ( Robert . Starling ) WEN TU ZHU
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Hardcover. Condition: New. HardCover. Pub Date: 2018-01-01 Pages: 26 Language: Chinese Publisher: Chemical Industry Press is always angry with Feigal. as long as someone makes him do something wrong. he will make things messy ! Friends gradually alienated him. and he felt very lonely. With the help of his mother. he finally foun…d a way to control the temper.
More imagesLECTURES ON THE COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY OF INFLAMMATION DELIVERED AT THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE IN 1891
ELIAS METCHNIKOFF, F. A. STARLING and E. H. STARLING M.D. (TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY)
Published by KEGAN, PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD., LONDON, 1893
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 218 Pp. PUBLISHED 1893. ILLUSTRATED WITH 65 FIGURES IN THE TEXT AND 3 COLOURED PLATES. DESCRIPTION: BURGUNDY FAUX LEATHER BLIND STAMPED CLOTH HARDBOUND, GILT STAMPED/EMBOSSED TITLE ON SPINE COVER. DIMENSIONS: 8 7/8" x 5 7/8" x 7/8." BOOK CONDITION: VERY GOOD; GENTLY SUNNED SPINE COVER, RUBBED BOA…RD EDGES, GENTLY BUMPED/RUBBED CORNER TIPS, CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT TEXT.
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Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1909 edition.… NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 14 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
The Chemical Regulation of the Secretory process. (Croonian Lecture).
"BAYLISS, W.M. (WILLIAM MADDOCK) & ERNEST H. STARLING. - THE CHEMICAL MESSINGER.
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Add to basketLondon, Harrison and Sons, 1904. 8vo. Later full buckram. Spine with gilt lettering. In: "Proceedings of the Royal Society", Vol. 73. VIII,548 pp. a. 11 plates. (Entire volume offered). Bayliss & Starling's paper: pp. 310-322. A stamp to edges, otherwise clean. First printing of this paper in which they developed the theory of h…ormonal control of the internal secretion, a milestone discovery by Bayliss and Starling in 1902, which introduced a quite new field in physiology and medicine, the discovery of the FIRST HORMONE, which the they named "Secretin". They here tries to find out how this new body could be decribed chemically, and one of the conclusions were "It is not precipitated by tannic acid, thus excluding bodies of alkaloid nature as well as di-amido compounds. This evidence, slight thought it is, points to secretin being a body of relatively small molecular weight and not a colloid. It may be compared to the active principle of the suprarenal glands, adrenalin, which has been obtained in a crystallic form and the cemical constitution of which has been approximately determined."(p. 314-15).Garrison & Morton: 1121.
Evaluation of data availability and quality for interaction second virial coefficients of use to the gas industry Volume N chnical No 1249 [LeatherBound]
Van Wie, Bernard J.; Langenberg, Mark A.; Chang, Wayne C.-W.; Kumar, Kesavalu H.; Starling, Kenneth E.
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original wrappers. Vertical crease. Very Good. First Edition. Author's Offprint. Garrison-Morton 1121: "Bayliss and Starling developed the theory of hormonal control of internal secretion." In the following year Starling introduced the word "hormone" (see Garrison-Morton 1122).
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Add to basket(London), Journal of Physiology, 1902. Offprint from the Journal of Pysiology. Vol. XXVIII. No. 5, 1902. Pp. (325-) 353, 17 textfigs. Small staples in inner margin, also sewn. A very small stain in lower blank margin. First edition of the scarce offprint of the paper that fully described the discovery of the first hormone, a mil…estone in the history of physiology and medicine. The discovery was announced in the Proccedings of the Royal Society in Janauary 1902, on 2 pages. The offered item constitutes the first printing of the paper in full, in which the authors described their milestone discovery, which introduced an entirely new field in physiology and medicine, namely the discovery of the FIRST HORMONE, which they named "Secretin". A few years later Sterling coined the word 'hormone' (1905) from the Greek 'hormon', meaning to exite or set into motion. Up until Baylis' and Starlings' discovery, it was thought that the glands, here specifically the pancreas, were controlled by the nerves (e.g. Pavlov and others), but Bayliss and Sterling discovered that the intestine was in fact signaling the pancreas, thereby presenting a COMPLETELY NEW MECHANISM involving a new kind of body or substance functioning as a chemical messenger. "If nerves are the sprinters of biology, Bayliss & Starling had discovered the marathon runners. In doing so, they also founded the science of hormones, called endocrinology" (Alan Lightman "The Discoveries", p. 34 ff). "With the discovery of hormones, Bayliss & Starling had found the internal command and control centers - and in this, their discovery was much larger than a new communication system. The mechanism of response and control was chemical: atoms and molecules. Now, with hormones, there was a mechanism for a living thing to regulate itself. Furthermore, with hormones, an organism could not only be studied, but also controlled from the outside. Never had the living body come closer to a machine, a self-regulating machine governed not only by physics, but also by chemistry. And not only a machine, but a machine that we humans could willfully control. At the start of the new century, we still have not come to terms with the implications of this idea." (Alan Lightman).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1902 B. - Leicester "Source Book in Chemistry 1900-1950", pp. 312-13.
