Anatomia comparata nervi sympathici

Weber, Ernst Heinrich (1795-1878). Anatomia comparata nervi sympathici. [2], 182pp. 5 folding plates drawn and engraved by the author. Leipzig: C. H. Reclam, 1817. 208 x 122 mm. Original green limp boards, light wear and spotting, lower spine chipped. Minor toning but very good.

First Edition of Weber's first published work, one of the earliest monographs on the sympathetic nervous system. The work originally served as Weber's thesis for his medical degree, which he received from the University of Wittenberg in 1815; the title-page for the thesis is bound at the front of the volume, and a 39-page gratulatory address by Burkhard Wilhelm Seiler, the dean of the university's medical faculty, is bound between pages 110 and 111. Garrison-Morton.com 1316. McHenry, Garrison's History of Neurology, p. 208.