Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 997

FELICE FONTANA (1730-1805) Treatise on the venom of the viper; on the American poisons; and on the cherry laurel, and some other vegetable poisons. To which are annexed, observations on the primitive structure of the animal body; different experiments on the reproduction of the Printed for J. Murray 1787 Vol. I: xix, 409, xiv pp.; Vol. II: [4] 395, xxii pp., 10 fold. plates. 21 cm.

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The Italian abbot, Fontana, was a distinguished naturalist and physiologist whose original and important researches on serpent venoms were published in Italian in 1767. In 1781 Fontana revised and enlarged his original treatise and added other essays, publishing the entire work in French. It is here in its first English translation and includes his letter in which he gives an account of his investigation of the space at the angle of the iris known as Fontana's space or canal.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.