Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 299

ANDREAS VESALIUS (1514-1564) The bloodletting letter of 1539, an annotated translation and study of the evolution of Vesalius's scientific development, by John B. de C. M. Saunders and Charles Donald O'Malley. Schuman [1947] 94 pp., illus. 23.2 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 280

Vesalius wrote this letter to Nicolas Florenas, a friend and professor of medicine at Louvain, in response to Florenas' request for additional information concerning the marginal notes printed with the vena cava table of the Tabulae anatomicae sex. The particular note that interested Florenas was the one concerning the azygos vein and its relation to the question of bloodletting in cases of pleurisy. Vesalius responded by giving his views, methods, and treatment regimen and continued with a long discussion in answer to Florenas' query as to where and how one should draw blood from the hemorrhoidal vessels. Translated and heavily annotated by John B. de C. M. Saunders (b. 1903) and Charles O'Malley (1907-1970), this was the first time a complete work of Vesalius had appeared in English translation.

Cited references: Waller 9927

Gift of John Martin, M.D.