Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1893

RUDOLF LUDWIG KARL VIRCHOW (1821-1902) Die krankhaften Geschwülste. Hirschwald 1863-1867 Vol. I: xii, 543 pp.; Vol. II: x, 756 pp.; Vol. III, Pt. I: 496 pp., illus. Copy 1: 22.5 cm.; Copy 2: 23.1 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1890

This classic work on tumors was never completed. Intending the volume to consist of thirty lectures, Virchow stopped after the twenty-fifth. It is a very important work on cancer, but records Virchow's erroneous conclusion that the origin of cancer is in the connective tissue, a theory that was almost immediately refuted in a paper appearing in Virchow's journal, Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie, which, incidentally, is still being published and is known merely as Virchows Archiv. Copy 2 of this work was initially owned by Robert Palmer Howard (1823-1889), mentor of Sir William Osler (see No. 2120 ff.), and Osler in turn gave it to Howard's son, Campbell Palmer Howard (1877-1936) as a Christmas gift in 1904 with the inscription: "These books belonged to your father, and were given to me by your mother. W.O."

See Related Record(s): 2120

Cited references: Cushing V157; Garrison-Morton 2617; Osler 1631; Waller 10001

Copy 1: Gift of John Martin, M.D. Copy 2: Gift of R. Palmer Howard, M.D