Vast in scope, it is one of the most fundamentally important works in the history of medicine. In it he reports in precise and exhaustive detail his findings in nearly seven hundred autopsy dissections, introducing and insisting on the concept that...
Also included is Pecquet's dissertation on the circulation of the blood and, at the end of the work, supporting letters by the Parisian physicians Jacques Mentel (1597-1671), Pierre de Mercenne (fl. 1650), and the astronomer, physicist, and...