Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1674

RUDOLPH WAGNER (1805-1864) Icones zootomicae. Leopold Voss 1841 xvi, 44 [1] pp., 35 plates (part col.). 41.5 cm.

Wagner, who succeeded Blumenbach (see No. 1113 ff.) at Göttingen, was an unusually versatile and productive comparative anatomist and physiologist. His original discoveries include the first description of the microscopic structure of the cell now called the nucleolus and, with Georg Meissner (1829-1903) in 1832, the encapsulated nerve endings found in the skin. They are sometimes called Wagner's corpuscles, but in English texts of histology are usually known as Meissner's corpuscles or touch cells. The 35 plates in this large atlas contain over 1,000 figures, some of which are partly hand-colored. The illustrations are chiefly of mammal, bird, fish, and crustacean skeletal parts. Insects are also depicted as well as figures showing special organs and vascular structures.

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Gift of John Martin, M.D.