EHRLICH, P. (PAUL).

Das Sauerstoff-Bedürfniss des Organismus. Ein farbenanalytische Studie.

Berlin, Hirshwald, 1885. Cont. hcloth, gilt back. (Bound by A. Eberl, Prag III). (4),167 pp. Firs and last 3 leaves slightly brownspotted, a few pencil underlinings, otherwise fine and clean.

First edition. The work includes the first statement of Ehrlich's "side-chain" theory. (Garrison & Morton No 2540).
"Among medical scientists of his generation Ehrlich was probably the most original, stimulating, and successful. The fruitfulness of his concepts initiated advances in all fields of biometrical research to which they were applied...Ehrlich was determined to explore the avidity of living tissues for certain dyes. In 1885 a remarkable monograph, "Das Sauerstoffbedürfniss des Organismus", reporting his investigations into the distribution of oxygen in animal tissues and organs, gained widespread attention from medical scientists." (DSB pp. 295-96).

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