Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1833

LUDWIK MAURYCY HIRSCHFELD (1816-1876) Traité et iconographie du système nerveux et des sens de l'homme. Victor Masson et fils 1866 2nd ed. Vol. I: x, 596 pp. 22.9 cm.; Vol. II: [4] pp., 92 plates (part fold.), with descriptive letterpress. 28.1 cm.

Although Polish by birth, Hirschfeld spent a great part of his professional life in France, where he was professor of anatomy on the Paris Faculty of Medicine and a member of many scientific societies. In 1859 he was appointed professor of descriptive anatomy on the faculty of medicine at Warsaw where he completed his career. The extensive study of neuroanatomy during the latter half of the nineteenth century resulted in a plethora of atlases of the nervous system. The exquisite plates included in this comprehensive work were drawn by J. B. Léveillé (fl. 1850) and are some of the most detailed of the time.

Cited references: Osler 2973 (1st ed., 1853)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.