Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 613

FREDERIK RUYSCH (1638-1731) Observationum anatomico-chirurgicarum centuria. Apud Henricum & viduam Theodori Boom 1691 [16] 138, 120 pp., plates (part fold.). 23 cm.

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In this text of practical observations in medicine and surgery, Ruysch presents the results of one hundred studies and illustrates many of them with excellent engravings, many of which are undoubtedly enhanced by his injection techniques. Also bound with this work is his Museum anatomicum Ruyschianum, a catalogue of the specimens in his museum, which was purchased and moved to Russia by Peter the Great in 1717. Although the classical description of congenital megacolon was published by Harald Hirschsprung (1830-1916) in 1887, it was Ruysch who first observed it in a five year old girl. In Observatio XCII entitled, "Enormis intestini coli dilatatio," he reports the case history.

Cited references: Waller 8337

Gift of John Martin, M.D.