Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 648

LORENZO BELLINI (1643-1704) Opera omnia. Apud Michaelem Hertz 1708 Vol. I: [24] 504 pp.; Vol. II: [8] 285 [3] pp., 5 plates. 22.7 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 646

Among the works in this first edition of Bellini's Opera are his two most important contributions on the urine and kidney. In De urinis et pulsibus he stressed the value of urine as a diagnostic aid. Exercitatio anatomica de structura et usu renum contained his noteworthy description of the anatomy of the kidney.

Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 140

Gift of John Martin, M.D.