Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 646

LORENZO BELLINI (1643-1704) Gustus organum. Typis Pisarriani 1665 [16] 247 pp. 12.8 cm.

Bellini was a noted Italian anatomist and physiologist, a pupil of Borelli and Redi, and later became a strong supporter of the latro-mathematical School. At the age of only eighteen, Bellini published his best-known work, Exercitatio anatomica de structura et usu renum (1662), in which he showed that the kidney was not a solid organ but was composed of tubules, since known as Bellini's ducts. His De urinis et pulsibus (1683), in which he was among the first physicians to recognize the value of urine as an aid to diagnosis, was very successful and went through several editions. This small work on the sense of taste is one of Bellini's lesser writings, and in it he discusses the tongue and its role in the sensation of taste.

Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 140

Gift of John Martin, M.D.