Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1044

EDUARD SANDIFORT (1742-1814) Observationes anatomico-pathologicae. P. v.d. Eyk et D. Vygh 1777-1781 Vol. I: [12] 151 pp., 8 fold. plates; Vol. II: [4] 164 pp., 8 fold.; plates; Vol. III: [4] 170 pp., 10 fold. plates; Vol. IV: [4] 178 (misnumbered 78) [2] pp., 10 fold. plates. 25.2 cm.

A pupil of Albinus (see No. 829 ff.), as well as his successor to the chair of anatomy and surgery at the University of Leiden, Sandifort directed his efforts to the development and perfection of the anatomy of disease and is sometimes called the father of pathological iconography. Although he was very interested in the development of anatomical illustration, most of Sandifort's works deal with pathological anatomy. In this work, he has combined his skills in both fields and presents a broad spectrum of pathological anatomy including cases of bony ankyloses, renal calculi, hernia, and congenital abnormalities. Étienne Louis Arthur Fallot (1850-1911) described the congenital heart condition in which children are known as "blue babies" in 1888 and his name has come to be associated with the malady. However, the Tetralogy of Fallot was described by Sandifort in the present work more than a century before Fallot.

See Related Record(s): 829

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 313; Garrison-Morton 2278; Waller 8456a

Gift of John Martin, M.D.