Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 620.5

JOHN BROWNE (1642-1700) Myographia nova, or, A description of all the muscles in humane body : as they arise in dissection : distributed into six lectures ; at the entrance into every of which, are demonstrated the muscles properly belonging to each lecture now in general use at the theatre in Chyurgeons-Hall, London, and illustrated with one and forty copper plates, accurately engraved after the life, with their names on the muscles, as much as can be expressed by figures, as also, with their originations, insertions, uses, and divers new observations of the authors, and other modern anatomists. Together, with an accurate and concise discourse of the heart, and its use, as also of the circulation of the blood, and the parts of which the sanguinary mass is made and framed, written by the late Dr. Lower Printed by Tho. Milbourn, for the author 1697 40 unnumbered pages, 109 pages, 1 unnumbered pages, 4 leaves of plates 53 cm

This work on the muscles contains six lectures, illustrated by copper-plate engravings. The descriptions of muscles are based on William Molins' Muskotomia, and the plates were based partly on Giulio Casserio's Tabulae anatomicae. However, the surgeon James Yonge later pointed out that Browne had plagiarized text from William Molin’s Muskotomia (1676), and illustrations from Giulio Casseri’s Tabula anatomicae (1627). The book went on to be popular nonetheless, and ten editions were eventually made.

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Cited references: NLM 17th #1822; Wellcome II pg. 251

Gift of Helen Hislop, 2014