Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 636

REINIER DE GRAAF (1641-1673) Tractatus anatomico-medicus de succi pancreatici natura & usu. Ex officina Hackiana 1671 [22] 216 [14] pp., 3 fold. plates. 15.8 cm.

Graaf, a Dutch anatomist and physiologist, was celebrated for his work on digestion as well as on the anatomy of the genital organs of both sexes. He was an early investigator of the pancreas and collected the pancreatic juice of dogs by means of artificially created pancreatic fistulae. In this work, he comments on the small quantity of juice secreted and its alkaline nature. The work also contains Graaf's letter to Luca Schacht (1634-1689) on the reproductive system.

Cited references: Cushing G348; Garrison-Morton 974 (1664 ed.); Waller 3678; Wellcome III, p. 142