Though a pupil, friend, local supporter, and successor to Vesalius in the chair of anatomy at Padua, Fallopius did have the temerity to point out, in this modest text on anatomy, some errors in the Fabrica. This occasioned Vesalius' answer in the...
This was the first significant book on the anatomy of the head and contains twenty full-page woodcuts made from Dryander's own dissections. Sixteen of the plates are of the head and brain and were done to show successive stages of dissection. The...
This edition of Mondino's anatomy was prepared by Johannes Dryander, called Eichmann, who is generally regarded as one of the first anatomists to make illustrations from his own dissections.
The present work is the first printing of the Physica manuscript. Also known as Liber simplicis medicinae, it is the earliest book on natural history to be written in Germany and it influenced the later writings of Brunfels, Fuchs, and Hieronymus...
The present work is one of the earliest works on the treatment of gunshot wounds following that by Paré. The first part of the book deals with the treatment of gunshot wounds and covers such complications as infection, compound fractures, imbedded...
The present work is Croce's major contribution and is chiefly a historical compilation of the writings of the important authorities from Hippocrates to Abulcasis. Croce's recommendations for wound management are surprisingly modern and are similar...
The present work is another edition of Galen's De ossibus ad tyrones ("On bones for beginners") first prepared by Ferdinando Balami (fl. 1514-ca. 1552) in 1535.
The present work is a very rare and little-known compendium of practical medicine and contains, as well, tracts by Euricius Cordus and Hieronymus Bock (1498-1554). The colored vignette on the title page and quaint woodcut illustrations through the...
The ninety-one woodcuts, including some repetitions, are believed to have been executed by Hans Hewamaul after Bartisch's own drawings. Two of the illustrations are presented with overlays showing anatomical parts lying successively one under the...
The initial sections on wound dressings in this early edition of Ketham's surgical work are nearly identical with the corresponding sections in the Fasciculus medicine. There is also a section containing recipes for various medications and a final...
Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, d. 1013?
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The first two books of al Zahrā wā«'s systematic treatise on medicine entitled al 'TasÌ“rif; tr. from the Arabic. Ed. by P. Ricius.- Brit. Mus. Gen. cat. 1962. v. 122, col. 751.
The first two books discuss the proper proportions of the human form and its individual members; the third book gives examples of the human figure after mathematical formulae of proportions are applied to various body parts; and the fourth shows...
The Fabrica is the most famous anatomical work ever published, to this day one of the most beautiful in existence, and the milestone in all medical history which definitely showed a break from old traditions. It cannot be emphasized too often that...
The book is very well illustrated with depictions of the birth stool, birth and lying-in rooms, monsters, instruments, anatomy of the female urogenital system, and fetal presentations at birth.
The 1521 ed. (Venice, J. Antonius & frateres de Sabio) has title: De humani corporis anatomia. Reprinted as ch. 10 in J. de Ketham's Fasciculus medicie (Venice, 1522)