1501 - Pavlov, I.P.

Pavlov, I.P. The Function of the Digestive Glands. Lectures by Prof. J.P. Pavlov in St. Petersburg. Authorized translation from the Russian by Dr. A. Walther in St. Petersburg. Wiesbaden, Bergmann 1898. With a preface and additions by the author, as well as 17 illustrations. xii, 199 p. Large 8°. Modern half-cloth. Old wrappers mounted. Slightly browned but a good copy. The work and edition that made Pavlov world-famous. First edition in any Western language, published four years before the first English translation was issued (1902) and even 31 years before the first French edition appeared. The German edition is the one that made Pavlov’s book—originally published in 1897 in St. Petersburg—known to a wide audience throughout the Western world.Heirs No. 1105: “The work of the Russian physiologist Pavlov in the field of the physiology of digestion led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1904. His demonstration of conditioned reflexes and automatic responses in dogs had implications not only for medicine, but also for political practice, the sociological sciences, and psychology." G. & M No. 1022. Horblitt No. 83, Dibner No. 135. In 1904, Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize “in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, by which, in essential respects, he has transformed and expanded our knowledge of this subject.” – 81.