Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 397

GIULIO CASSERIO (1561-1616) De vocis auditusque organis historia anatomica. Excudebat Victorius Baldinus 1600-1601, (Pt. I, 1601) Pt. I: [56] 191 pp.; Pt. II: 126 pp., 34 plates, 2 ports. 37.1 cm.

Preceding Spigelius (see No. 412 ff.), Casserio was next to the last in the line of great anatomists in the Vesalian tradition at Padua. Medical historians rank the accuracy and artistry of the illustrations in this and other works of Casserio in the same category as those of Vesalius (see No. 280 ff.), with Casserio setting the standard in copperplates as Vesalius had done in woodcuts. The thirty-four full-page anatomical copperplates of the vocal organs and of the organs of hearing in man and other animals are accompanied by engraved portraits of Casserio and of the Duke of Parma.

See Related Record(s): 412 280

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 223; Cushing C113; Garrison-Morton 286; Waller 1809; Wellcome 1333.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.