DIEMERBROECK, Isbrandus de (1609-1674). Anatome corporis humani... Utrecht: Meinardi á Dreunen, 1672. 2 volumes bound in one, 4 o (197 x 150 mm). Engraved title and 13 engraved folding plates. Contemporary vellum. Provenance : Early library stamp (erased from title). FIRST EDITION of the author's most important work, which enjoyed considerable popularity throughout Europe and was several times reprinted. The work includes observations in the field of physiological anatomy and surgery. There are excellent descrptions of the circulatory and nervous systems, bones, teeth, and eyes. It also contains a reference to asthma among stone cutters, and the finding of stone in their lungs at autopsy. "Diemerbroeck, professor of anatomy and medicine at Utrecht, is remembered not only for his studies of the plague but more especially for this work on anatomy" (see Heirs of Hippocrates 497 for the Lyons, 1679 edition). NLM/Krivatsy 3203; Wellcome II, p.466.
DIEMERBROECK, Isbrandus de (1609-1674). Anatome corporis humani... Utrecht: Meinardi á Dreunen, 1672. 2 volumes bound in one, 4 o (197 x 150 mm). Engraved title and 13 engraved folding plates. Contemporary vellum. Provenance : Early library stamp (erased from title). FIRST EDITION of the author's most important work, which enjoyed considerable popularity throughout Europe and was several times reprinted. The work includes observations in the field of physiological anatomy and surgery. There are excellent descrptions of the circulatory and nervous systems, bones, teeth, and eyes. It also contains a reference to asthma among stone cutters, and the finding of stone in their lungs at autopsy. "Diemerbroeck, professor of anatomy and medicine at Utrecht, is remembered not only for his studies of the plague but more especially for this work on anatomy" (see Heirs of Hippocrates 497 for the Lyons, 1679 edition). NLM/Krivatsy 3203; Wellcome II, p.466.
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