Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1318

KARL FRIEDRICH BURDACH (1776-1847) Anthropologie für das gebildete Publicum. P. Balz 1837 viii, 787 [1] pp., 3 fold. plates. 19 cm.

Burdach, a German anatomist and physiologist, taught at Dorpat, Estonia, and Königsberg during his career. He is best remembered as the person who first accurately described an ascending fiber tract in the posterior column of the spinal cord. The tract terminates in the nucleus cuneatus of the medulla oblongata and is known as the column of Burdach. Burdach planned a definitive work on the nature of life that would cover many fields with invited contributions from numerous noted authorities. The first volume of Die Physiologie als Erfahrungswissenschaft appeared in 1826 but he ceased the project with the sixth volume in 1838 upon the death of his wife. The present work, intended for the educated layman, incorporates a number of ideas and theories that he had not yet published.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.