Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1096

JOSEPH SCHERER (1750-1844) Tabulae anatomicae quae exhibent musaei anatomici Academiae Caes. Reg. Josephinae praeparata cerea. Apud Christianum Fridericum Wappler et Beck [1817]-1821 40 cm.

Scherer served for several years as prosector at the Josephs-Academy in Vienna before embarking on his chosen career as a military surgeon. After sixteen years in that profession, Scherer rejoined the Josephs-Academy where he became professor of physiology and pathological anatomy and was eventually named vice-director of the academy. This work consists of a textual volume with five parts and an atlas, with the text in Latin and German in parallel columns. A series of 222 beautifully hand-colored plates portraying wax anatomical specimens at the Josephs-Academy museum are contained in the atlas volume. The atlas plates were assembled after publication from those originally issued with the five parts. The plates were drawn and engraved from wax models, many of which were made by Mascagni (see No. 1098 ff.), by Paul Johann Weindl. The University of Iowa Libraries' copy contains two copies of Plate XXX, the duplicate having been engraved by Johann Tebmayer. This copy is wanting a supplement published in 1825.

See Related Record(s): 1098

Cited references: Cushing S122; Waller 8598

Gift of John Martin, M.D.