Elements of Physiology. Translated from the Original Latin, and interspersed with occasional notes by Charles Caldwell; To which Is Subjoined, by the translator, an appendix, exhibiting a brief and compendious view of the existing discoveries relative to the subject of animal electricity

Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1795. First American edition. 8vo. 2 volumes bound in one: xvi, 229; (2), 247 pp. Half-title. "The first account of Galvanism in an American book, Caldwell's appendix written three years after Galvani's announcement of his experiments" (Emil Offenbacher, 1987 catalogue). Evans 28310. Austin 216: "Translation of the Institutiones Physiologicae, from the first edition, Göttingen, 1786." Contemporary calf, leather spine label; owner's name on title page, but a very good copy. (Inventory #: 51424)