9780224006316 - Blood: The Paramount Humour von Hackett, Earle (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition with dust jacket ex libris with usual markings - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

First Edition. Publisher's presentation copy. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Boards warped. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 288 pages, [14] leaves. illustrations, map 24 cm. Notes; Illus. on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (page 278). Subjects; Medicine, Popular. Blood. Blood Diseases. Hematology. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 8vo (24 cm), 288 pp, 14 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (stamps of the Royal Institution). "Just how do you give transfusions? Are there vampires? Do cobwebs staunch bleeding? Is blood alive? Does a woman's blood run through the baby inside her? Is there a difference between the bloods of black and white peoples? How much blood is in you? What did a leech do? What about the miraculous annual liquefaction of the preserved blood of St Januarius, the patron saint of Naples? Do pelicans feed their own blood to their young ones? What was in the old apothecary's drawer labeled `Dragon's Blood'? What blood tests are used when paternity is disputed? Can you really die of a broken heart? And dreams of blood, are they significant? An examination of these and similar questions can reasonably be made into an unpretentious book, which will then become an easy bridge between haematology (the scientific study of blood) and what one may call haematosophy (or traditional bloody wisdom)" (from the blurb).