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NOBEL. The Lamentable Decline in Self-Satisfaction

NOBEL. The Lamentable Decline in Self-Satisfaction by Rous, Peyton

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NOBEL. The Lamentable Decline in Self-Satisfaction
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Rous, Peyton
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New York: W. Wood & Co., 1947. First printing. FIRST PRINTING OF FAMOUS ESSAY BY NOBEL LAUREATE PEYTON ROUS, INSCRIBED BY HIM. 15x22.5 cm offprint, printed paper wraps, stapled, inscribed upper right cover, "At it again, you see, PR", paginated 7-20 pp. Footnote: "Read before the Charaka Club, 20 November 1940". Browning to wraps, very good in custom archival mylar cover. This essay by Peyton Rous was first published in Proceedings of the Charaka Club in 1947, and subsequently reprinted in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Volume 9, Number 4, Summer 1966, pp. 439-449, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The essay was cited in Rous's obituary in Nature, "Aside from his own publications (some 300 in all) Rous also contributed to scientific presentation and acted as editor of the Journal of Experimental Medicine for over thirty years. His width of cultivation could also be seen in most amusing and lighthearted ways, as on tactlessness, and the lamentable decline in self-satisfaction. . . . When the history of cancer research comes to be written, he will rank with the highest in honour."--Obituary, Nature Vol. 226, April 25, 1970. PEYTON ROUS (1879 - 1970) received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. In 1966 he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work built on his demonstrating that a malignant sarcoma growing on a domestic chicken could be transferred to another fowl simply by exposing the healthy bird to a cell-free filtrate. This finding, that cancer could be transmitted by a virus (now known as the Rous sarcoma virus, a retrovirus), was widely discredited by most of the field's experts at that time. Since he was a relative newcomer, it was several years before anyone even tried to replicate his prescient results. Although some influential researchers were convinced enough to nominate him to the Nobel Committee as early as 1926 (and in many subsequent years) he did not receive the award until 40 years later. THE CHARAKA CLUB was founded in 1898 by a group of five doctors: Charles Dana, Joseph Collins, Ward A. Holden, Frederick Peterson, and Bernard Sachs, who shared an interest in the historical, literary and artistic aspects of medicine. The society's first name was the Medico-Historical Club. In 1900, the name was changed to the Charaka Club, after the legendary Indian physician who compiled a book of ancient medical texts. At the club dinners, various members presented papers on literature, art, and history, usually related to medical history. Beginning in 1902, many of these papers were published in The Proceedings of the Charaka Club. Twelve volumes were produced, the last in 1988.
Poetry of the Vegetable World. A Popular Exposition of the Science of Botany, and its Relation to Man

Poetry of the Vegetable World. A Popular Exposition of the Science of Botany, and its Relation to Man by Schleiden, M.J.

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Poetry of the Vegetable World. A Popular Exposition of the Science of Botany, and its Relation to Man
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Schleiden, M.J.
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New York: Newman & Ivison, 1853. First American edition. 1853 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF MONOGRAPH ON BOTANY BY M. J. SCHLEIDEN, EVOLUTIONIST AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE CELL THEORY, ILLUSTRATED WITH LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES.7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's mauve cloth binding, blindstamped publisher's device to covers, gilt title to spine, xvii, (29-) 360 pp, 4 fine lithographed plates (2 partially colored), light wear to head of spine, spine faded, embosssed library stamps to pp 29 and 260, not affecting plates, light foxing to first few pages, very good in custom archival mylar cover. CHAPTERS INCLUDE: The Eye and the Microscope, The Internal Structure of Plants, On the Propagation of Plants, The Morphology of Plants, About the Weather, What Does Man Live Upon?, On the Milk-Sap of Plants, A Sketch of the Cactus Tribe, The Geography of Plants, or the Districution of Plants Upon the Surface of the Earth, History of the Vegetable World, The Aesthetics of the Vegetable World. MATTHIAS JAKOB SCHLEIDEN (1804 – 1881) was a German botanist and co-founder of the cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow. While a professor of botany at the University of Jena, he wrote Contributions to Phytogenesis (1838), in which he stated that the different parts of the plant organism are composed of cells. Thus, Schleiden and Schwann became the first to formulate what was then an informal belief as a principle of biology equal in importance to the atomic theory of chemistry. He also recognized the importance of the cell nucleus, discovered in 1831 by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown, and sensed its connection with cell division. Schleiden was one of the first German biologists to accept Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. He became professor of botany at the University of Dorpat in 1863. He concluded that all plant parts are made of cells and that an embryonic plant organism arises from the one cell.

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