Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 749

HERMANN BOERHAAVE (1668-1738) Institutiones medicae Apud Johannem vander Linden 1708 [4] 250 [2] pp., 1 illus. 15.6 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 739

The present work is recognized as Boerhaave's most influential work and the first textbook of physiology. It is the first publication of his lectures at Leiden and is divided into four parts covering physiology, pathology, hygiene, and therapeutics. In it Boerhaave clearly states the relationship of disease to the living body and, even though his approach was eclectic and included the role of the humors, he was objective and rational when organizing his findings for diagnosis. The book contains one small illustration depicting an isolated muscle with a tubular nerve fiber attached.

Cited references: Cushing B462 (1727 ed.); Garrison-Morton 581; Lindeboom 40; Osler 1106 (1722 ed.); Waller 1200; Wellcome II, p. 188

Gift of John Martin, M.D.