Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 885

ALBRECHT VON HALLER (1708-1777) Deux mémoires sur le mouvement du sang, et sur les effets de la saignée. Chez Marc-Mic. Bousquet et Paris: Chez David 1756 viii, 343 pp., engr. front. 16.2 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 880

This work on the heart stamps Haller as a first-class investigator and experimental physiologist. His findings are based on animal experimentation and the experiments are carefully documented. The plate showing human blood transfusion is particularly interesting.

Cited references: Cushing H65; Osler 747; Waller 3997

Gift of John Martin, M.D.