Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 474

FRANCIS GLISSON (1597-1677) Tractatus de rachitide sive morbo puerili. Apud Arnoldum Leers 1682 [18] 412 pp., illus. 12.7 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 472

Glisson was a most able clinician as well as anatomist, physiologist, and pathologist, and the present work, first published in London in 1650, gave the first clinical description of rickets with an early note on Barlow's disease (infantile scurvy).

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3729 (1650 ed.); Osler 2757 (1650 ed.); Waller 3589 (1650 ed.); Wellcome III, p. 126

Gift of John Martin, M.D.