Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 673

ANTON NUCK (1650-1692) Sialographia et ductuum aquosorum anatome nova. Apud Petrum vander Aa 1690 [16] 158 [16] pp., 6 fold. plates. 15.9 cm.

Nuck, first at The Hague and later professor at Leiden, was well known as an oculist, aurist, and dentist, and did his most important work in investigating the lymphatics and glands, in which he used the injection technique much as Ruysch had done with the blood vessels. This book, first published in 1685 under the title De ductu, contains some of Nuck's best work on glands and ducts, especially the salivaries and tear ducts. The six large engraved folding plates were drawn by Nuck.

Cited references: Osler 352 [i]; Waller 6919

Gift of John Martin, M.D.