Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 262
BALDASAR HESELER (1508 or 9-1567) Andreas Vesalius' first public anatomy at Bologna, 1540; an eyewitness report, by Baldasar Heseler, together with his notes on Matthaeus Curtius' lectures on Anatomia Mundini. Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri Aktiebolag [1959] 343 pp., illus., port., fold. map. 25.2 cm.
Heseler, a German physician, was a medical student at Bologna when he made these notes from lectures on Mondino dei Luzzi's Anatomia corporis humani (see No. 97), given by Matthaeus Curtius (1475-1542), a noted Italian physician and teacher, and demonstrated by none other than Andreas Vesalius (see No. 280 ff.). Heseler's notes, found in a manuscript in the Royal Library in Stockholm, cover twenty-five lectures and twenty-six demonstrations and are of great interest and importance because they provide a contemporary and intimate insight into attitudes and opinions toward Curtius' lectures and Vesalius' demonstrations.
Gift of John Martin, M.D.
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