Fulton, John Farquhar

Collected papers 1920-[1957] (cover titles]

V.p., v.d. 4 volumes, large 8vo, containing approximately 140 pamphlets, offprints, extracts, bifolia and broadsides authored or co-authored by J. F. Fulton, some with presentations from him, and many with the ownership stamp of Clarence W. Nichols, Jr. Two items in the final volume are photocopied; all in generally very good condition, and in cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt on upper covers and spine. Fulton (1899-1960) was a native of St. Paul, Minnesota and a student at the University of Minnesota. Following a stint in World War I, he returned to graduate from Harvard. In 1921 he became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. "Fulton's return to Harvard for medical training brought him into contact with Harvey Cushing, then at the zenith of his neurological career. He was so attracted by Cushing's medical acumen and devotion that he spent a year working with him. This experience alerted the young physiologist to the possibility of using modern surgical techniques in the physiology laboratory in the analysis of the function of the nervous system ... As a result when he was appointed professor of physiology at Yale Medical School in 1929, Fulton organized the fist primate laboratory for experimental physiology in America" (DSB). He wrote The Physiology of the Nervous System (1938) which was translated into six languages, and he founded, with J. G. Dusser de Barenne, the Journal of Neurophysiology. He also wrote a biography of Harvey Cushing (1946) and what is now the standard bibliography of Robert Boyle (1932-34). Item #60904

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