Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 676

STEVEN BLANKAART (1650-1702) Anatomia reformata, sive Concinna corporis humani dissectio, ad neotericorum mentem adornata. Apud Cornelium Boutestein [et] Jordanum Luchtmans 1695 [12] 769 (misnumbered 759) [14] pp., illus., front. (port.), 84 plates. 19.4 cm.

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Blankaart first published this popular anatomical text at Leiden in 1687 and this is one of the many editions that followed. In this comprehensive work, he cited nearly seventy authors whose works he had consulted. The finely engraved plates in this profusely illustrated work attest to Blankaart's keen observational powers. The book closes with a final chapter on methods for embalming the human body. A plate depicts some of the apparatus used in the embalming process.

Cited references: Cushing B432; Wellcome II, p. 177

Gift of John Martin, M.D.