Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 442

WILLIAM HARVEY (1578-1657) Observationes et historiae omnes & singulae è Guiljelmi Harvei libello De generatione animalium excerptae, & in accuratissimum ordinem redactae. Typis Abrahami Wolfgang 1674 [32] 240 pp., 8 plates. 13.1 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 416

This small book, edited by Justus Schrader (b. 1646), contains Wilhelm Langley's (1616-1668) excerpts and comments on Harvey's De generatione animalium along with his own observations and experiments. The first six plates, depicting various stages in the development of the chick embryo, are the first illustrations of Harvey's text to be published. The remaining two plates illustrate hernial protrusions and accompany a series of postmortem reports prepared by Joannes van Horne, Franciscus Le Boë (Sylvius), Frederik Ruysch, Jan Swammerdam, and others.

Cited references: Cushing H168; Keynes 41; Osler 715; Russell 383; Waller 4124; Wellcome III, p. 220

Gift of John Martin, M.D.