Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 663

PHILIPPE VERHEYEN (1648-1710) Corporis humani anatomia. Apud Thomam Fritsch 1705 [18] 622 [22] pp., front. (port.), 31 plates. 16.8 cm.

Verheyen initially studied theology at Louvain but the loss of a foot through illness caused him to change to medicine, which he studied at Leiden and Louvain. He completed his medical degree at Louvain in 1683, became professor of anatomy in 1689 and of surgery in 1693. He was a highly successful anatomist and the present work, a reprint of the 1693 edition, became extremely popular, replacing Bartholin's Institutiones anatomicae (see No. 458) as the standard textbook of the time. There were a great number of editions of the book but historians agree that the second, two volume, edition of 1710 is superior to this first edition.

See Related Record(s): 458

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 248; Garrison-Morton 388 (1693 ed.); Waller 9879 (1693 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.