Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 234

JOHANNES DRYANDER (ca. 1500-1560) Anatomiae. Apud Eucharium Ceruicornum 1537 [72] pp., illus. (woodcuts), fold. table. 20 cm.

Dryander (also known as Eichmann), professor of surgery at Marburg, was a friend of Vesalius and was "among the first anatomists who made illustrations after their own dissections" (Choulant-Frank, p. 148). His Anatomiae appeared six years before Vesalius' great work (see No. 281). This was the first significant book on the anatomy of the head and contains twenty full-page woodcuts made from Dryander's own dissections. Sixteen of the plates are of the head and brain and were done to show successive stages of dissection. The first eleven plates appeared earlier in his Anatomia capitis humani (1536) and the remaining four plates of the chest and lungs were added as an appendix, possibly as models for a second book which was never published. A folding chart containing an explanation of the parts of the head, included here in facsimile, is not present in most copies. This work also contains a brief tract on the anatomy of the pig traditionally attributed to Copho (ca. 1110), an early teacher at Salerno, and a short essay by Gabriele de Zerbis (see No. 137), professor at Padua, on the anatomy of the fetus.

See Related Record(s): 281 137

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 148; Cushing D275; Durling 1215; Garrison-Morton 371; Waller 2576; Wellcome 1869

Gift of John Martin, M.D.