Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 259

JOANNES GUINTERIUS ANDERNACUS (ca. 1505-1574) Institutionum anatomicarum secundum Galeni sententia ad candidatos medicine libri quatuor. . . . Ab Andrea Vesalio . . . auctiores & emendatiores redditi. [Melchiorre Sessa 1540?] [16] 101 [3] ll. 10.7 cm.

Guinterius, a German physician, was far better known as a teacher, scholar, and humanist. One of Vesalius' teachers at Padua, he was always more active at scholarly pursuits than at the practice of medicine and practical anatomy. He first published this work in 1536 as a manual for medical students, and, although the book exerted considerable influence at the time, it was essentially Galenic in tradition and provided little new anatomical knowledge. Vesalius made a number of changes with the publication of this second edition, and it is evident that Vesalius was beginning to suspect the errors in Galen, which he later exposed. Also included with this work is Giorgio Valla's (see No. 139) De humani corporis partibus. In addition to his several medical and mathematical works, Valla translated a number of Greek scientific texts into Latin including selections from Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Rhazes, and Averroës.

See Related Record(s): 100 139

Cited references: Cushing G434; Cushing Vesalius III.-2; Durling 2227 (1536 ed.); Osler 582 (1538 ed.); Waller 3791; Wellcome 2968 (1538 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.