Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 497

IJSBRAND VAN DIEMERBROECK (1609-1674) Anatome corporis humani. Sumpt. Joan. Antonii Huguetan 1679 [14] 606 [6] pp., 13 fold. plates. 24.3 cm.

Diemerbroeck, professor of anatomy and medicine at Utrecht, is remembered not only for his studies of the plague but more especially for this work on anatomy. The first edition was published in 1672; it quickly became popular throughout Europe and was widely used through all of its later editions. The thirteen folding plates are finely etched and their simplicity makes them highly effective and instructive.

Cited references: Cushing D149; Waller 2451 (Geneva, 1679 ed.); Wellcome II, p. 467

Gift of John Martin, M.D.