Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1847. 8vo. 303, [1] pp. VERY SCARCE SECOND EDITION IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION. With 3 wood engravings. Original cloth in blind, recased; an exceptionally clean copy. Second edition of Beaumont's brilliant clinical investigation into the physiology of digestion. Beaumont (1785-1853), a United States Army surgeon, was the first..... More