Behavior Patterns of the Alimentary Tract. The Beaumont Foundation Lectures

Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co., 1930. First edition.

1930 THE BEAUMONT FOUNDATION LECTURES--SCARCE PRESENTATION COPY OF CLINICAL RESEARCH STUDY OF GASTRIC BEHAVIOR PATTERNS FOLLOWING VARIOUS FOODS AND STIMULI.

Small ocatvo, gray cloth boards, inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper, "President Robert E Vinson/with kind regards/ T Wingate Todd", 79 pp, 12 figures in text, bookplate on front paste-down of Library of Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, Gift of President R.E. Vinson", card pocket rear paste-down with "withdrawn" stamp. Covers soiled, text very good.

FROM THE PREFACE, "The subject material has consisted of groups of healthy young cooperative student subjects of both sexes. The experiments have included a considerable number of subjects and have been repeated on the same lubjects under the same conditions until sufficient data were gathered to give confidence in the uniformity of response. Actually over four hundred students assisted as subjects in this experimental work."

THOMAS WINGATE TODD (1885 – 1938) was an English orthodontist who is known for his contributions towards the growth studies of children during early 1900s. He attended the University of Manchester and received his Medical Degree in 1907. After graduation he continued teaching Anatomy through 1912. He served as House Surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1909-1910. During this time, Dr. Todd published several papers on inter-relationship of skeleton and nerves. Dr. Todd eventually moved to Western Reserve University and became the Professor of Anatomy and Physical Anthropology at the Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He taught anatomy to both dental and medical students at that time.

PROVENANCE: ROBERT ERNEST VINSON (1876 – 1945) was president of the University of Texas at Austin from 1916 to 1923, then president of Western Reserve University, (now Case Western Reserve University) from 1923 to 1933. His presidency of the University of Texas was marked by the "Ferguson controversy" during which James Ferguson, Governor of Texas, attempted to oust members of the University faculty. When Vinson refused, Ferguson vetoed most of the University's appropriation. This action was compounded by the Governor's indictment on charges of embezzlement, and he was subsequently impeached and removed from office.