Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 504

THOMAS WHARTON (1614-1673) Adenographia; sive, Glandularum totius corporis descriptio. Sumptibus Joannis Ravesteinii 1659 [24] 261 pp., fold. plate. 12.9 cm.

A successful London physician, Wharton also carried out many anatomical investigations. He studied the entire glandular system and, after discovering that the submaxillary gland had a duct (Wharton's duct), hypothesized that all glands have a secretory duct. In this treatise, he describes the glands of the body including some, such as the choroid plexuses of the cerebral ventricles, which are actually not glands. The single folding plate in this volume illustrates the submaxillary gland, kidney, pancreas, and the thymus gland.

Cited references: Cushing W146; Garrison-Morton 1116 (1st ed., 1656); Osler 4221; Russell 855; Waller 10264

Gift of John Martin, M.D.