Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 612

FREDERIK RUYSCH (1638-1731) Dilucidatio valvularum in vasis lymphaticis, et lacteis. Ex officina Harmani Gael 1665 [16] 94 pp., 7 plates (3 fold.). 14.1 cm.

Ruysch, a Dutch surgeon and anatomist and professor of anatomy at Leiden and Amsterdam, mastered (and probably invented) a method of minute injection of anatomical structures allowing detailed studies. The recipe for the injected substance has been lost, however. He made many anatomical investigations, including those of the valves in the lymphatics, the bronchial arteries, and the vascular plexuses of the heart, and was the first to point out the nourishment of the fetus through the umbilical cord. Ruysch presents the first description of the values in the lymphatic system in this book.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1099

Gift of John Martin, M.D.