Description: BEAUMONT, WILLIAM. Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion. Wood-engraved text illustrations. 280 pages. 8vo, 223x135 mm, original cloth with paper lettering piece, covers soiled, stained, and detached; foxing throughout, dampstaining in outer corners of opening leaves, later pencil signature on title, pastedowns browned; cloth folding case. - Plattsburgh: F. P. Allen, 1833
Footnote: first edition of the first accurate scientific study of the process of gastric digestion. Norman 152. Garrison-Morton 989; Rutkow GS9.