Principles of General Physiology

by William Maddock Bayliss

First edition, first printing

of the classic medical text

London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1915. xx, 850, 24 (ads) pp. Illustrated. Publisher's crimson cloth with black lettering to front board, gilt spine lettering. First edition. Very Good with small scratch to spine, faint stain to front board, pencil mark to rear board, foxing to edges, bookplate on paste down, brief note about book affixed to front free endpaper stating "I like the original edition best," a little foxing to prelims. Garrison & Morton, 3rd edition, 658, "Bayliss's book treats of general physiology from the physical chemical point of view. For some years it remained the most important book of its kind, and to-day is still of great value for its historical information and its accurate bibliography." Uncommon as a first edition.