Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 640

NEHEMIAH GREW (1641-1712) Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham College. . . . Whereunto is subjoyned the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts. Printed by W. Rawlins, for the author 1681 [12] 386 [4] 43 pp., front. (port.), 31 plates (1 fold.). 31.4 cm.

Grew, who was secretary of the Royal Society, compiled this catalogue of its museum. He was one of the early comparative anatomists to use the microscope and he introduced the term "comparative anatomy." His treatise on the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts is an early classic in the field, and the thirty-one plates are particularly fine.

Cited references: Cushing G402; Garrison-Morton 297; Russell 333; Wellcome III, p. 164

Gift of John Martin, M.D.