Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 459.5

ALEXANDER READ (1586?-1641) S¯omatographia anthr¯opin¯e, or, A description of the body of man. Printed by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Michael Sparke at the blew Bible in Green Arbor 1634 [4], 318 pages [], 117, [1] p : ill. 20 cm.

A surgeon and anatomist in 17th century, Read was admitted to the College of Physicians in 1621. From 1632-1634 he was a lecturer on anatomy at Cambridge, and was among the dissenters to William Harvey’s great doctrine that blood circulates. A Description of the Body of Man is his first work.

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Cited references: Waller, 7782; Krivasty, 2930; Wellcome I, 1683