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Heirs of Hippocrates

The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books

Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2046

GUSTAF RETZIUS (1842-1919) Das Menschenhirn; Studien in der makroskopischen Morphologie. P. A. Norstedt 1896 Vol. I: viii, 167 pp., illus.; Vol. II: 96 plates. 38.8 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 2045

As with other works of Retzius, this massive set is an example of scholarship, accuracy, and fine printing. The ninety-six plates include both drawings and photographs depicting the minute anatomy of the brain from every possible angle.

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 409; Cushing R117; Garrison-Morton 1426

Gift of John Martin, M.D.

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