MAYER, Julius Robert von.

Ueber das Santonin. Eine Inaugural-Dissertation welche zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde in der Medicin & Chirurgie unter dem Praesidium von Wilhelm von Rapp.

46 pp. 8vo, self-bound. Heilbronn: M. Müller, 1838. First edition of Mayer’s inaugural dissertation, for which he was awarded his doctorate of medicine. Mayer (1814-78), was one of the early formulators of the principle of the conservation of energy, along with Joule, Thomson, and Tait (see D.S.B., IX, pp. 235-40). Santonin is an anthelmintic used to poison the round worm Ascaris lumbricoides. It must be administered while fasting and be followed by a purgative in order to expel the worm. Fine copy. Stamp on title of Starkenstein. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica.

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