‎G. ROSTREVOR HAMILTON AND JOHN ARLOTT‎
‎LANDMARKS‎

‎Harmonic Integrals Associated with Algebraic Varieties [Received 9 February, 1934. - Read 15 February, 1934.] [In: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series. Volume 39]. - [""ONE OF THE LANDMARKS OF TWENTIETH CENTURY MATHEMATICS""]‎

‎London, Hodgson & Son, 1935. Royal 8vo. Volume 39 + 40 of ""Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series"" bound together in a very nice contemporary blue full cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt ex-libris (""Belford College. Univ. London"") to spine. Minor bumping to extremities. Binding tight, and in excellent, very nice, clean, and fresh condition, in- as well as ex-ternally. Small circle-stamp to pasted-down front free end-papers and to title-page (""Bedford College for Women""). Discreet library-markings to upper margin of pasted-down front free end-papers. [Vol. 39:] pp. 249-271. [Entire volume: (Vol. 39:) (4), 546 pp. + (Vol. 40:) (4), 558 pp].‎

‎First publication of Hodge's seminal work on harmonic integrals.In the article Hodge showed that most of the elementary properties of harmonic functions could be extended to harmonic functional.""Hodge is famous for his theory of harmonic integrals (or forms), which was described by Weyl as ""one of the landmarks of twentieth century mathematics."" [...] Hodge's work straddles the area between algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and complex analysis. It can be seen as a natural outgrowth of the theory of Riemann surfaces and the work of Lefschetz on the topology of algebraic varieties. It put the algebraic geometry on a modern analytic footing and prepared the ground for the spectacular breakthroughs of the postwar period of the 1950s and 1960s."" (Gowers, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, 2008).Hodge himself states in the introduction to the present work: ""In two papers I have defined integrals, which I have called harmonic integrals, which are associated with an analytic variety to which a metric is attached, and have established an existence theorem for them. More recently I have applied the theory of these integrals to the Riemannian manifold of an algebraic surface with the topological invariants of the Manifold. There is reason to believe that this method of considering the Abelian integrals attached to an algebraic variety will prove a powerful one, and I have thought it advisable to set out in the following pages an account of the principles on which the method is based."" In 1941 Hodge published the book ""The theory and applications of harmonic integrals"" which expanded and elaborated the ideas presented in the present article. ‎

‎Treatment of Pernicious Anemia by a Special Diet. (Offprint from ""The Journal of the American Medical Association"", Aug. 14, 1926, Vol. 87, pp. 470-476). - [NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE 1934 - ""ONE OF THE LANDMARKS IN THE HISTORY OF THERAPEUTICS""]‎

‎Chicago, American Medical Association, 1926. 8vo. Offprint in the original printed wrappers. Previous owner's name to top right corner of front wrapper. A very fine and clean copy. 19 pp.‎

‎First printing, in the scarce offprint, of Minot and Murphy's seminal Nobel Prize winning paper which ""ranks as one of the greatest modern advances in [anemia] therapy."" (GM). Minot and Murphy shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Whipple ""for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia"". ""The brilliant discovery by Minot and Murphy in 1926, demonstrating the dramatic effectiveness of liver preparations in pernicious anemia, forms one of the landmarks in the history of therapeutics."" (Satoskar, Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics).""Prompted by pathologist George Whipple's research on the feeding of liver to anemic dogs, Minot and Murphy fed liver to their patients. In a now famous 1926 paper [the present], they announced its miraculous benefits for forty-five otherwise doomed souls."" (Wailoo, Drawing Blood: technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America). Up until the 1920'ies, pernicious anemia (also known as ""blood thinning"" disease) was a fatal disease, for which there was no cure. People who developed pernicious anemia - characterized by dangerously low counts of red blood cells - were left exhausted, hospitalized, and without the hope of being cured. ""Minot’s work and that of numerous pupils during the decade after 1926 initiated a new era in clinical hematology by replacing the largely morphologic studies of the blood and of the blood-forming and blood-destroying organs with dynamic measurements of their functions."" (DSB).In the early 1920s, most doctors believed that pernicious anemia was caused by a toxic substance in the body, and they prescribed doses of arsenic, transfusions, or removal of the spleen as treatments. But after these remedies were administered, patients had relapses, and death was inevitable. Across the world, 6,000 lives a year were lost to the scourge of pernicious anemia.""In 1923, Minot met William P. Murphy, who had graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1922 and who was to become an assistant instructor at Harvard Medical School in 1924. In their investigations to find a cure for pernicious anemia, Minot believed that research by George Whipple, a researcher whom he had known while both were at Johns Hopkins Hospital, was particularly significant. Whipple had completed experiments in which he bled dogs to make them anemic. Then he determined which foods restored their red blood cells. His results showed that red meat and certain vegetables were effective treatments, but liver was the best treatment. Minot wondered if Whipple's findings with dogs could be duplicated in humans. He and Murphy were determined to try it, and proceeded to do so with their private patients. Observing an increase in the patients' red blood cell counts, they thought they were on the right track, and decided to try the experiment with hospitalized patients which eventually led to their landmark discovery."" (The Harward University Gazette, 1998).After Minot and Murphy's verification of Whipple's results in 1926, pernicious anemia victims ate or drank at least one-half pound of raw liver, or drank raw liver juice, every day. This continued for several years, until a concentrate of liver juice became available.The active ingredient in liver remained unknown until 1948, when it was isolated by chemists Karl A. Folkers.Garrison & Morton: 3140‎

‎Pig-in The landmarks of St. Petersburg and its environs of Soc. Pavel Pig-in, p‎

‎Pig-in The landmarks of St. Petersburg and its environs of Soc. Pavel Pig-in, pp. 1-3./Svinin Dostopamyatnosti Sankt-Peterburga i ego okrestnostey Soch. Pavla Svinina. Ch. 1-3. Pigin The landmarks of St. Petersburg and its environs of Soc. Pavel Svinin. Parts 1-3. St. Petersburg: In the printing house of V. Plavilschikov, 1816-1828.We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-56aadf5fee9b01a9.‎

‎Sukhodrev, V.M. Petersburg and its landmarks. St. Petersburgs historical past a‎

‎Sukhodrev, V.M. Petersburg and its landmarks. St. Petersburgs historical past and present./Sukhodrev, V.M. Peterburg i ego dostoprimechatelnosti. Istoricheskoe proshloe i nastoyashchee Peterburga. Sukhodrev, V.M. Petersburg and its Landmarks. St. Petersburgs Historical Past and Present. St. Petersburg: Enlightenment, 1901. VII, 1, 127, 1 c., 45 l., 21 - 15 sm. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-55b815523bb70c9.‎

‎Presence of Medieval English Literature Studies at the Interface of History, Author, and Text in a Selection of Middle English Literary Landmarks,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, X+304 p., 156 x 234 mm. * NEW ISBN 9782503536804.‎

‎Negotiations between history, author, and text in a selection of Middle English literary landmarks. The modern period has read its own contingent values into Middle English literature, and a modern canon of vernacular medieval literary texts has evolved as a result. While this book works with a selection of texts that have achieved such canonical status, it brings to light some of the ways in which they nevertheless resist the flattening domestications and expectations of modern taste. It illustrates how they formerly existed as constituents of a past world richer, stranger, and less familiar than much modern opinion has supposed. Thus the book aims to recuperate lost senses in which the age in which these texts were conceived and written was present within them, as well as ways in which they may have been present to their age. This twin idea of ?presence? is the thread that binds a series of chapters on English verse and prose written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries together. While they may be read as discrete studies of individual literary landmarks, the chapters also entail an implicit and ramifying demonstration of the shortcomings of some modern views of what makes certain currently prized Middle English texts worth reading, and of how the vernacular literature of medieval England is retrospectively to be defined and periodized. Languages : English, Italian, Latin. ‎