Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 529

HENRICUS EYSSONIUS (1620-1690) Tractatus anatomicus & medicus de ossibus infantis. . . . Accessit Volcheri Coiteri eorundem ossium historia. Typis Johannis Cölleni 1659 [24] 216 pp. 12.7 cm.

Eyssonius, a Dutch physician, distinguished himself in osteology. This first edition of his treatise on children's bones is followed by the important tract of Volcher Coiter (1534-1576), Tractatus anatomicus, de ossibus foetus abortivi, et infantis, dimidium annum nati, which had been printed only once before, in a very rare collection of tracts issued in 1573. Coiter, also Dutch, was a specialist in osteology and comparative anatomy. His studies of the formation of the bones in the fetus probably earn for him the place of priority as the father of modern embryological studies.

See Related Record(s): 38

Gift of John Martin, M.D.