Treatise on the Motive Powers, A.
A TREATISE ON THE MOTIVE POWERS which produce the circulation of the blood. New York & London: Wiley and Putnam. 1846. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. xiv, 170. (6) advertisements; some foxing throughout partly unopened in contemporary brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, and spine and boards ruled in blind, some slight wear, but a good copy.
Rare first edition of this survey of blood circulation and the ways in which it can be disrupted by the American educationalist and activist Emma Willard (1787-1870).
Willard established the first women's higher education establishment in the United States, the Troy Female Seminary, in 1814, and outlined her experiences in her 1819 pamphlet A Plan for Improving Female Education, presented to the New York State Legislature. On the back of this, she spent much of her time promoting girl's education both in the United States and abroad. Her writings show a broad range of interests among her books are a history of the United States, an astronomical geography, a guide to morals for young people, and a volume of poetry.
In the present work, she explains the action of the heart, the network of arteries and veins, the way in which temperature is regulated, the functions of the organs, diseases of the heart the importance of sleep, and the dangers of "ill directed carefulness“ and quackery.
OCLC records physical copies at only the British Library and the French National Library, although microform copies are common.
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