Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 859

JOSIAS WEITBRECHT (1702-1747) Syndesmologia; sive, Historia ligamentorum corporis humani. Ex typographia Academiae Scientiarum 1742 [xxviii] 276 pp., 26 fold. plates. 25.7 cm.

Although he was born in Germany, Weitbrecht practiced and published his many anatomical works in St. Petersburg. At one time he catalogued the famous Ruysch museum of anatomical specimens, prefacing it with his own anatomical compendium. This, his chief work, has been translated into French and German. An exhaustive and fundamental treatise on the scientific study of the joints (syndesmology), it contains twenty-six large folding copperplates depicting the anatomy of the joints. The author is also remembered by Weitbrecht's ligament, a small ligament in the elbow.

Cited references: Waller 10201

Gift of John Martin, M.D.