Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1527

ALFRED ARMAND LOUIS MARIE VELPEAU (1795-1867) Embryologie: ou, Ovologie humaine, contenant l'histoire descriptive et iconographique de l'oeuf humain. Chez J. B. Baillière 1833 4, xxviii, 104 pp., 15 leaves of plates. 42 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1521

At the time Velpeau published this treatise on embryology, he was surgeon to l'Hôpital Saint-Antoine and l'Hôpital de la Pitié in Paris. He was, in addition, supernumerary professor on the Faculté de Médecine de Paris and was also active at l'Hôpital de la Charité. This general work on human embryology was very well received and went through two more editions in France, two in Germany and, was also published in Italy. The fifteen plates which follow the text depict the various stages in the development of the human fetus. Many of the figures in these plates were taken from the work of contemporary authors whom Velpeau readily acknowledges in the book.

Cited references: Waller 9849 (1834 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.