Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1258

XAVIER BICHAT (1771-1802) Traité d'anatomie descriptive. Gabon [et] Brosson 1801-1803 20.4 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1256

Bichat died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one, having finished the first three volumes of this, his last great work. François Régis Buisson (1776-1805?) compiled the fourth volume and Philibert Joseph Roux (1780-1854) the fifth.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 404; Osler 1302; Waller 1031; Wellcome II, p. 164

Gift of John Martin, M.D.