Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 472

FRANCIS GLISSON (1597-1677) Anatomia hepatis. Typis DuGardianis 1654 [48] 458 [13] pp., illus., 2 fold. plates. 16.5 cm.

Glisson was a graduate of Cambridge and Regius professor of physic there for more than forty years, although he was almost never in residence, as he carried on a busy medical practice in London. He was a founder of the Royal Society and one-time president of the Royal College of Physicians. In this book he gives the first description of the capsule of the liver and describes its blood supply. Here, too, is the description of the sphincter of the bile duct. In its time, the Anatomia hepatis was the most important treatise thus far on the physiology of the digestive system.

Cited references: Cushing G288; Garrison-Morton 972; Russell 322; Wellcome III, p. 126

Gift of John Martin, M.D.