Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1255

JEAN JOSEPH SUE (d. 1831) The anatomy of the bones of the human body . . . copied from the elegant tables of Sue and Albinus. Printed for Maclachlan & Stewart 1829 By Edward Mitchell, engraver. With explanatory references by the late John Barclay. [64] pp., 32 plates. 27.2 cm.

The thirty-two plates in this beautifully executed atlas were copied from the works of Sue and Albinus by the engraver, Edward Mitchell. John Barclay (1758-1826), who supplied the commentary, "appears to have been the first anatomist to use the suffix '-ad' indicating direction, e.g. , rotulad, tibiad, sternad" (Osler 1910).

Cited references: Osler 1910

Gift of John Martin, M.D.