PAVLOV, Ivan (1849-1936). Die Arbeit der Verdauungsdrusen.

PAVLOV, Ivan (1849-1936).  Die Arbeit der Verdauungsdrüsen ... Autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem Russischen von Dr A. Walther. Wiesbaden: Verlag von J. F. Bergmann, 1898. Large 8vo (236 x 165mm). Half title, illustrations, diagrams and tables. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Bibliothek des Med.Klin. Instituts, München (later library stamps on front pastedown, half title, title and at a few margins; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. First German edition of a work that was first published in St. Petersburg in 1897, and the first edition to appear outside Russia. Cf. Dibner Heralds 135; Garrison-Morton 1022 (citing the first Russian edition of 1897): "Pavlov made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion. Especially notable was his method of producing gastric and pancreatic fistulae for the purpose of his experiments"; Horblit 83; PMM 385; Waller 7257.