The Human Body and its Connection with Man, Illustrated by the Principal Organs
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co 1851. xxiii, [24]-411 pages. Original blind stamped cloth and gilt spine. Wear at the extremities, minor chipping head/tail spine panel. Rear joint split top 3 inches. Occasional spotting, a few pencil notes in the text (including previous owner name front flyleaf), and a few creased page corners. Good. Cloth. [21837]
"[Wilkinson] studied medicine, and set up as a homoeopathic doctor in Wimpole Street in 1834. Attracted by the works of William Blake, he studied the Songs of Experience. He was also inspired by Emanuel Swedenborg, to the elucidation of whose writings he devoted much of his life." (wikipedia) Many odd concepts here, with interesting running-titles such as "functions of the nerve spirit", "The Breathing of the Brain", "Even breathing", "Essentialness of the heart", "The Heart of Feeling", "what abstractions are", "the linking of organs to life", etc etc.
Scarce, with no copies listed in OCLC/Worldcat as of this listing.
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