Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 160

JACOPO BERENGARIO DA CARPI (1470-1530) Tractatus de fractura calvae sive cranei. Impressum per Hieronymum de Benedictis 1518] cv ll., illus. (woodcuts). 19.1 cm.

Berengario (or da Carpi, as he is often called) was the great anatomist of the period immediately before the flowering of medicine in the Renaissance. A native of Ferrara, professor of anatomy at Bologna from 1502 to 1522, and one-time professor at Padua, he may be thought of as the immediate predecessor of Vesalius. This work on skull fracture was occasioned by a controversy which had arisen among Berengario and other physicians regarding the postoperative treatment of a head wound suffered by Lorenzo de'Medici. It is especially interesting for the woodcuts of cranial instruments.

Cited references: Cushing B302; Durling 531; Waller 911; Wellcome 778

Gift of John Martin, M.D.