Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 848

JOHANN FRIEDRICH CASSEBOHM (1699-1743) Tractatus quatuor anatomici de aure humana. Sumptibus Orphanatrophei 1734 [12] 84 pp., 3 fold. plates. 21.2 cm.

Cassebohm, a native of Halle, graduated from Frankfurt in 1730 where he prepared his doctoral dissertation on the human ear. He became professor of anatomy at Halle in 1738 and at Berlin in 1741, only two years before his death. Although this book has not received a great deal of attention, it is one of the earlier works containing highly accurate descriptions of the anatomy of the ear. The four tracts discuss the temporal bone, the external ear, the tympanic cavity, and the contents of the tympanic cavity.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1547; Waller 1805; Wellcome II, p. 309

Gift of John Martin, M.D.