Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 933

CARL FRIEDRICH HUNDERTMARK (1715-1762) Liber singularis de incrementis artis medicae per expositionem aegrotorum apud veteres in vias publicas et templa. In officina Joannis Friderici Gleditsch 1749 2nd ed. [8] 78 pp., 1 plate. 28 cm.

Hundertmark was professor of medicine and later professor of physiology, anatomy, and surgery at the University of Leipzig. He first published this work in 1739, and in it he discusses the ancient custom of exposing patients in the streets and temples in the hope of meeting people who had suffered and recovered from the same disease.

Cited references: Osler 5981; Waller 4994; Wellcome III, p. 316

Gift of John Martin, M.D.