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"Anatomes peritissimus" : Johann Georg Wirsung's unknown experiments on the circulation of the blood / Antonio Gamba, Giuseppe Ongaro.

Esperimenti di Johann Georg Wirsung sulla circolazione del sangue / Giuseppe Ongaro, Antonio Gamba.

La scoperta del condotto pancreatico / Giuseppe Ongaro.

The pancreas and the pancreatic duct. Engraving after J.G. Wirsung, 1644.

Catoptron microcosmicum, suis aere incisis visionibus splendens, cum historia, et pinace, de nova prodit / [Johann Remmelin].

Hieronymi Castellonei Cardani Medici Mediolanensis. De malo recentiorum medicorum medendi usu libellus ... Eiusdem libellus de simplicium medicinarium noxa ... / [Girolamo Cardano].

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Johann Georg Wirsung

Images from the collections

Images by Johann Georg Wirsung

Works from the collections

Catoptron microcosmicum, suis aere incisis visionibus splendens, cum historia, et pinace, de nova prodit / [Johann Remmelin].

Hieronymi Castellonei Cardani Medici Mediolanensis. De malo recentiorum medicorum medendi usu libellus ... Eiusdem libellus de simplicium medicinarium noxa ... / [Girolamo Cardano].

The pancreas and the pancreatic duct. Engraving after J.G. Wirsung, 1644.