Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 390

ISRAEL SPACH (1560-1610) Nomenclator scriptorum medicorum. Ex officina typographica Martini Lechleri, Impensis Nicolai Bassaei 1591 [16] 215 [41] pp. 16.5 cm.

At the time of Gesner's (see No. 307 ff.) death, he had not completed the medical portion of his Pandectae--the subject bibliography that was to be a companion set to his Bibliotheca universalis. It remained for Spach to publish this first subject bibliography of medicine after being induced by friends to make his classification public. In the work, Spach grouped the writings of over 1,400 medical authors whom he listed in some 30 subject classes and subclasses. He realized the need for alphabetical indexes and provided the book with both subject and author indexes. This was a significant advance in bibliographical technique. Spach's work complements that of Le Coq (see No. 402) and the two are here appropriately bound together.

See Related Record(s): 307 402

Cited references: Cushing S339; Durling 4243; Waller 19058; Wellcome 6029

Gift of John Martin, M.D.