The anatomy of sleep: or, the art of procuring sound and refreshing slumber at will ... with annotations and additions by Earl Stanhope / by Edward Binns.

  • Binns Edward, -1852.
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1845
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The anatomy of sleep: or, the art of procuring sound and refreshing slumber at will ... with annotations and additions by Earl Stanhope / by Edward Binns. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : John Churchill, 1845.

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xxii,505 pages

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Second edition.

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Refr: Wellcome II, p168 Note: Edward Binns graduated MD at Edinburgh in 1828, and had a fashionable practice in Portman Square, London. As a physician he is only remembered as the author of the above work. The first edition, published in 1842, was the first recorded book to be printed using a typesetting machine. Due to opposition from London compositors the above second edition was typeset by hand in the traditional way

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