Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 692

GIOVANNI MARIA LANCISI (1654-1720) De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus. Excudebat Felix Carolus Musca 1738 [4] xxvii, 219 pp., 8 plates (7 fold.). 23.5 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 687

This is a later edition (probably second) of an important work first published at Rome in 1728. Lancisi here classifies various cardiac diseases, gives a detailed description of valvular vegetations, describes cardiac syphilis, and establishes syphilis as a cause of cardiac aneurysm. The causes and characteristics of aneurysms were the chief interest of Lancisi's long professional life.

Cited references: Cushing L32 (1st ed., 1728); Garrison-Morton 2973 (1st ed.); Osler 3152 (1st ed.); Waller 5541; Wellcome III, p. 441

Gift of William B. Bean, M.D