Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1733

JAKOB HENLE (1809-1885) Allgemeine Anatomie. L. Voss 1841 xxiv, 1048 pp., illus., 5 fold. plates. 21.2 cm.

A follower of Bichat's pioneer work in microscopic anatomy, Henle became the greatest histologist of his day and one of the finest anatomists of any era. A man of wide interests, equally at home with the arts as with science, Henle led a life filled with politics, romance, and intrigue. After study at the University of Bonn where he became a favorite of Johannes Müller (see No. 1631), Henle served on the faculties of the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, and Göttingen. Henle was the first to investigate the minute structures of the epithelial system. His explanation of metastasis in cancer was the forerunner of Virchow's cellular pathology. One of Henle's most important discoveries, several of which were first stated in the present work, was the muscular layers in the walls of the arterioles, an observation which became the starting point of the study of the vasomotor theory.

See Related Record(s): 1631

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 404; Garrison-Morton 543; Waller 4332

Gift of John Martin, M.D.