Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 812

WILLIAM CHESELDEN (1688-1752) The anatomy of the humane body. Printed by William Bowyer 1741 6th ed. [10] 336 pp., 41 plates (front.). 20.6 cm.

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The fifth edition of Cheselden's noted work was printed on large and thick paper with a new series of plates engraved by Gerard van der Gucht (1696-1776) and only 250 copies were issued. Additional textual material was added and the number of plates was increased to forty with the addition of much of Cheselden's osteological work. Apart from the size and thickness of paper, this sixth edition is identical with the fifth edition of 1740. In the Preface Cheselden notes that the finely engraved frontispiece "represents the story of Hippocrates going to cure Democrates of madness, but finding him dissecting, to discover the seat of the Bile, he pronounced him the wisest man in Abdrea."

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 261; Russell 156; Wellcome II, p. 335

Gift of John Martin, M.D.