Glisson (Francis) Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis, first edition, E.F. for Henry Brome, 1677.

Glisson (Francis) Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis, first edition, title in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait and 3 folding engraved plates, portrait trimmed just outside border and laid down, light institutional ink stamps just within platemark of plates, D1 section of lower blank corner torn, some marginal water-staining, spotted, modern calf-backed marbled boards, small 4to, [Wing G859; Garrison and Morton 579; Krivatsy 4828; Waller 3586; Heirs of Hippocrates 475] 4to,E.F. for Henry Brome, 1677.

⁂ 'This important work on the stomach and intestines contains Glisson's original concept of 'irritability' not only as the prime cause of muscular contraction but as a property of all human tissues'. (Heirs of Hippocrates).