Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 700

VINCENT DENIS DROUIN (1660-1722) Description du cerveau. Chez Guillaume de Lüyne 1691 [16] 125 [3] pp., 9 fold. plates. 15.5 cm.

Drouin enjoyed an excellent reputation as a skilled surgeon in the French army and returned to private life to become chief surgeon at Des Petites Maisons in Paris. This work, important in the development of neuroanatomy during the late seventeenth century, is the result of keen observation and careful dissection. In it, Drouin discusses the skull, the brain and its circulation, and the structure of the nose, eye, tongue, and ear. The nine folding plates were engraved from Drouin's own drawings.

Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 487

Gift of John Martin, M.D.