A textbook for students.
London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1951
An important female neurophysiologist. First edition of this classic textbook by an early female neurophysiologist. A beautiful copy, and rare in such nice condition in the dust jacket.
Author Mary Brazier (1904-1995) was an internationally recognised neurophysiologist who also became a respected historian of science in later life. She was educated at Bedford College in London and did important research on the nervous system, including electrical activity in thyroid disease, nerve injuries, 'war neuroses', and the effects of anaesthesia on the brain. Following the Second World War she worked with Norbert Weiner at MIT, where they developed an analog correlator to analyse EEG and other nerve potentials, then joined the Brain Research Institute at UCLA, where she continued pioneering the use of computers in neurology. 'As editor of the important new journal in her field, she published an important bibliography of EEG publications ranging from 1875-1948... Her later work on the history of her field explored these early publications and extended back into the beginning of neurophysiology in the seventeenth century' (Ogilvie, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, pp. 174-175).
The previous owner of this copy, Henry Guze, 'specialized in psychosomatic illness, schizophrenia and disorders of sexual behavior. He was a founder of The American Academy of Psychotherapists and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and co‐founder and former president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex' (New York Times obituary, July 4, 1970).
First edition, first impression; 8vo; diagrams, charts, and illustrations from photographs throughout the text; original green cloth, titles to spine and publisher's roundel to upper board gilt, in the price-clipped jacket that is very lightly rubbed with a few shallow scuffs affecting the upper panel, excellent condition; 220pp.
Author Mary Brazier (1904-1995) was an internationally recognised neurophysiologist who also became a respected historian of science in later life. She was educated at Bedford College in London and did important research on the nervous system, including electrical activity in thyroid disease, nerve injuries, 'war neuroses', and the effects of anaesthesia on the brain. Following the Second World War she worked with Norbert Weiner at MIT, where they developed an analog correlator to analyse EEG and other nerve potentials, then joined the Brain Research Institute at UCLA, where she continued pioneering the use of computers in neurology. 'As editor of the important new journal in her field, she published an important bibliography of EEG publications ranging from 1875-1948... Her later work on the history of her field explored these early publications and extended back into the beginning of neurophysiology in the seventeenth century' (Ogilvie, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, pp. 174-175).
The previous owner of this copy, Henry Guze, 'specialized in psychosomatic illness, schizophrenia and disorders of sexual behavior. He was a founder of The American Academy of Psychotherapists and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and co‐founder and former president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex' (New York Times obituary, July 4, 1970).
First edition, first impression; 8vo; diagrams, charts, and illustrations from photographs throughout the text; original green cloth, titles to spine and publisher's roundel to upper board gilt, in the price-clipped jacket that is very lightly rubbed with a few shallow scuffs affecting the upper panel, excellent condition; 220pp.
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