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    • Traité du paludisme.

    • Traité du paludisme.

    • Laveran, A.(Alphonse), 1845-1922

    • 2087

    • This is the last of four separate treatises on malaria published by Laveran. In it, he summarizes the long history of the study of malaria, fully describes his own discovery of the malaria parasite as well as its mosquito carrier, and places...
    • Physica

    • Physica

    • Hildegard,Saint, 1098-1179

    • 0074

    • 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...
    • Icones anatomicae

    • Icones anatomicae

    • Caldani, Leopoldo Marco Antonio, 1725-1813

    • 0962

    • Most of the plates duplicated in outline drawing, all of which except pl. I-II have parallel numbering. A compilation of the best anatomic representations of past periods supplemented by those of original preparations. of Choulant, L. History and...
    • Feldtbůch der Wundartzney

    • Feldtbůch der Wundartzney

    • Gersdorff, Hans von, d. 1529

    • 0149

    • By Hans von Gersdorff. Cf. Dedication. The book contains many woodcuts, attributed to Hans Wechtlin (b. ca. 1480), which depict anatomy, surgical operations, and surgical instruments and devices. Herrlinger comments that "The illustrations . . ....
    • Elements of the practice of medicine

    • Elements of the practice of medicine

    • Bright, Richard, 1789-1858; Addison, Thomas, 1793-1860

    • 1452

    • More than sixty separate diseases and conditions are described, each accompanied by a lucid account of its history, causes, prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment. Though the style is obviously dated, the descriptions of many of the diseases excel in...
    • Descriptio anatomica oculi humani

    • Descriptio anatomica oculi humani

    • Zinn, Johann Gottfried, 1727-1759

    • 0966

    • Zinn produced this important book on the anatomy of the eye which is a fundamental work in the history of ophthalmology. His name is preserved in several of the finer structures of the eye: the central artery of Zinn, circulet of Zinn, zonule of...
    • De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque.

    • De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque.

    • Morgagni, Giambattista, 1682-1771

    • 0792

    • 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...
    • De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.

    • De humani corporis fabrica libri septem.

    • Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564

    • 0281

    • 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...
    • Anatomie de la tête

    • Anatomie de la tête

    • Gautier Dagoty, 1717-1785

    • 0940

    • Gautier, a French printmaker, was an assistant to Le Blon and, like Ladmiral, claimed the color printing process as his own. He published some ten collections of colored plates of various portions of the anatomy, and he was the first person to...
    • Anatome animalium

    • Anatome animalium

    • Blasius, Gerardus Leonardus, 1626?-1692

    • 0560

    • Added t.-p. engr.; title vignette printers' device. This work is ""the first comprehensive manual of comparative anatomy based on the original and literary researches of a working anatomist"" (Francis J. Cole, History of comparative anatomy....

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