Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 514

THOMAS BARTHOLIN (1616-1680) Anatomia. Ex typographia Adriani Vlacq 1655 [16] 592 [13] pp., illus., plates (part fold.), port. 18.8 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 512

Like his father, Caspar Bartholin (see No. 458), the equally famous Danish anatomist, Thomas wrote several anatomical treatises which became very popular textbooks and were translated into several other languages. In reality, however, they were revisions of his father's Institutiones anatomicae (1611). Although the illustrations differed from edition to edition, few of them were original. Most were after Vesalius, Casserio, Vesling, Bauhin, Ruysch, and others. This edition contains eight folding plates and sixty-six copperplates of uneven workmanship. This second edition also contains the sixth edition of two letters of Johannes Walaeus, De motu chyli et sanguinis, which support Harvey's work. Bartholin has also added a final chapter, "De lacteis thoracicis et vasis lymphaticis," on the thoracic system and lymphatic vessels.

See Related Record(s): 458

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, pp. 245-247; Cushing B104 (1651 ed.); Wellcome II, p. 107

Gift of John Martin, M.D.