Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 572

MARCELLO MALPIGHI (1628-1694) Dissertationes epistolicae duae; una deformatione pulli in ovo. Altera de bombyce. Impensis Joannis Martyn 1673 [12] 100 pp., 12 fold. plates. 23 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 569

Although the title page indicates that there are two dissertations in this work, only De bombyce is present in this issue. Malpighi was interested in silkworms and their cultivation and in this treatise he discusses their external form, musculature, tracheae, nerves, heart, intestines, genitourinary tract, and silk-spinning apparatus. Much of the silkworm's external and internal anatomy is illustrated in the twelve folding plates that follow the treatise.

See Related Record(s): 571

Cited references: Cushing M101 (1669 ed.); Osler 984

Gift of John Martin, M.D.