Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 191

JOST DE NEGKER (ca. 1485-ca. 1544) Die anatomischen Tafeln des Jost de Negker 1539. Hugo Schmidt 1928 [10] pp., 6 leaves of plates, illus. 55 cm.

Negker, woodcutter, printer, and publisher, first issued this work at Augsburg in 1539 as Ain gar kunstlichs, allen leyb und Wundartzten. The six plates were plagiarized from Vesalius' (see No. 280 ff.) Tabulae anatomicae sex of 1538. They differ only by Negker's double rendering of the textual material in both Latin and German. In a note to the reader, Negker gave credit to Vesalius and explained that his purpose in publishing the book was to help educate German surgeons, many of whom couldn't read Latin. In the present work, the noted medical historian, Karl Sudhoff (1853-1938), and Director of the Munich Museum, Max Geisberg (1875-1943), have reproduced Negker's work together with an historical introduction.

See Related Record(s): 280

Cited references: Cushing V72; Cushing-Vesalius II.-7; Waller 6827

Gift of John Martin, M.D.