Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 632

THEODOR KERCKRING (1640-1693) Sipicilegium anatomicum. . . . Osteogeniam foetuum. Sumptibus Andreae Frisii 1670 [22] 280 pp., illus., 9 fold. plates. 22.2 cm.

Kerckring, a physician at Amsterdam and a fellow-worker of Ruysch (see No. 612), added a number of original observations to anatomical knowledge. In this handsome volume, with its thirty-nine interesting and accurately drawn plates, he describes the valvulae conniventes (now sometimes called the "valves of Kerckring") of the small intestine. He also made noteworthy investigations of the fetal bones, described in the second section of this book.

See Related Record(s): 612

Cited references: Cushing K53; Garrison-Morton 383; Waller 5270; Wellcome III, p. 386

Gift of John Martin, M.D.