Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1506

JOHN DAVIDSON GODMAN (1794-1830) Anatomical investigations, comprising descriptions of various fasciae of the human body. H. C. Carey and I. Lea 1824 134 pp., illus., plates. 21.8 cm.

Orphaned at six, cheated out of his rightful inheritance, and living the great majority of his days in poverty, Godman nevertheless accomplished a good deal within his short life. After brief employment as a printer's apprentice and sailor, Godman secured a medical education and subsequently held posts at the medical colleges of Ohio, Philadelphia, and Rutgers where he lectured with almost unparalleled popularity. His major work is the three-volume American natural history, published in 1826. Godman also founded the Western quarterly reporter of medical surgical and natural sciences, the first medical journal west of the Alleghenies. The present work deals mainly with the anatomy and physiology of the various fasciae and is considered one of Godman's major achievements. A second part is Godman's translation of Antonio Scarpa's (see No. 1103 ff.) De penitiori ossium structura commentarius ("Treatise on the minute anatomy of the human bones").

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Gift of John Martin, M.D.