Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2045

GUSTAF RETZIUS (1842-1919) Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere; morphologisch-histologische Studien. In Commission bei Samson & Wallin 1881-1884 Vol. I: xi, 221 pp., 35 plates; Vol. II: viii, 368 pp., 39 plates. 38.7 cm.

Retzius, professor of histology at the Karolinska Institut in Stockholm, was one of the foremost histologists of the nineteenth century. This huge work on the anatomy of the vertebrate ear did much to clarify some early problems in brain morphology.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1566

Gift of John Martin, M.D.