Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1074

FéLIX VICQ D'AZYR (1748-1794) Oeuvres. Chez L. Duprat-Duverger 1805 19.6 cm.; Atlas: 35.4 cm.

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This posthumous work is the only collected edition of all the works of Vicq d'Azyr. In the biographical essay by the editor, Jacques Louis Moreau de la Sarthe (1771-1826), one learns that Vicq d'Azyr died of pulmonary congestion following the fatigue and anxiety of his ordeals during the French Revolution. The first three volumes of this set contain his Éloges historiques on the lives of great naturalists, chemists, and physicians. The next two volumes comprise his important studies in comparative anatomy including those on the flexor and extensor muscles of man and animals, the vocal cords, and the structure of birds and quadrupeds. The final volume contains the second edition of his Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie (Paris, 1786) of which only the first volume was ever published. The atlas contains thirty-nine plates devoted almost exclusively to neuroanatomy. Many of these plates are double-page and plate 29 is duplicated in the University of Iowa Libraries' copy.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 313; Waller 9951 (Atlas wanting)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.