Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 711

JACOBUS HOVIUS (fl. 1702) Tractatus de circulari humorum motu in oculis. . . . Epistola apologetica, in clarissimum virum D. D. Fredricum Ruyschium. Apud Gerardum Potuliet 1740 [2nd ed.]. [16] 207 [1] 32 pp., 8 fold. plates. 21.9 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 710

Following this second edition of Hovius' Tractatus is the fourth edition of the Dissertatio medica de circulo sanguinis in corde by Adam Christian Thebesius (1686-1732). Thebesius studied at Leipzig, Halle, and Leiden where he received his medical degree. He later practiced medicine and was city physician of Hirschberg and Bäder. The present work, first published in 1708, was prepared as the dissertation for his medical degree at Leiden. In it, Thebesius gives the first description of the coronary valves and the venae cordis minimae (Thebesian veins).

Cited references: Hovius: Waller 4944. Thebesius: Garrison-Morton 763 (1st ed., 1708); Osler 745 (1st ed.); Waller 9534a

Gift of P. J. Leinfelder, M.D