Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 788

GIOVANNI DOMENICO SANTORINI (1681-1736) Septemdecim tabulae, quas nunc primum edit atque explicat iisque alias addit de structura mammarum et de tunica testis vaginali Michael Girardi. Ex regia typographia 1775 [8] xxxv, 217 [2] pp., 42 plates. 31.9 cm.

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Santorini worked as both a practicing physician and teacher-anatomist in Venice and was known to be one of the most careful and fastidious anatomists of his period. This work, edited by Michael Girardi (1731-1797) and issued thirty-nine years after Santorini's death, contains illustrations of many parts of the human body including the organs of smell and hearing, the pharynx, breasts, heart, stomach, liver, intestines, pancreas, and bladder. Of the twenty-one plates in the book, seventeen were by Santorini, and each plate is accompanied by a companion outline plate which is marked with reference letters. The book is one of the finest anatomies of the eighteenth century because of its excellent illustrations and comprehensive commentary.

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, pp. 263-264; Cushing S66; Waller 8476

Gift of John Martin, M.D.