Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 475

FRANCIS GLISSON (1597-1677) Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis. Cui praemittitur alius, De partibus continentibus in genere; & in specie de iis abdominis. Apud Petrum vander Aa 1691 [32] 591 pp., front. (port.), plates. 13 cm.

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

First published in 1677, this important work on the stomach and intestines contains Glisson's original concept of "irritability" not only as the prime cause of muscular contraction but as a property of all human tissues. The view was materialistic and mechanistic and, like all of Glisson's hypotheses, shows an attempt by an able thinker to explain important physiological phenomena. This edition also contains Glisson's treatise on the abdomen.

Cited references: Cushing G292 (1st ed., 1677); Garrison-Morton 579 (1st ed.); Osler 2762 (1st ed.); Russell 328; Wellcome III, p. 126 (1st ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.