Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 710

JACOBUS HOVIUS (fl. 1702) Tractatus de circulari humorum motu in oculis. . . . Epistola apologetica, in clarissimum virum D. D. Fredricum Ruyschium. Apud Joannem Arn. Langerak 1716 [20] 203 [4] pp., 7 fold. plates. 19.2 cm.

This Hovius, a Dutch ophthalmologist and anatomist, is sometimes confused with another anatomist of the same name (1710-1786). The Tractatus, which was Hovius' graduation thesis at Utrecht, describes the circulus venosus (Hovius' canal). This structure, the venae vorticosae, consists of four veins which pierce the sclera and carry blood from the choroid coat of the eye to the superior ophthalmic vein. In the accompanying Epistola, Hovius defends his priority against Ruysch (see No. 612 ff.) who described the same structure in 1706. The book contains seven folding copperplates illustrating the anatomy of the eye.

See Related Record(s): 612

Cited references: Osler 3015; Waller 4943; Wellcome III, p. 306

Gift of John Martin, M.D.