Books from the Library of the Medical Society of London : an exhibition 14 January to 3 April 1985 / [compiled by John Symons].

  • Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Date:
1985
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Credit: Books from the Library of the Medical Society of London : an exhibition 14 January to 3 April 1985 / [compiled by John Symons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sixteenth Century Hieronymus von BRUNSCHWIG The vertuose boke of distyllacyon of the waters of all maner of herbes ... translate into Englysshe [by Laurence Andrewe]. London: [P. Treveris for] L. Andrewe. '1427' [i.e. 1528?]. STC 13436. Two distinct editions of this translation of Brunschwig's Liber de arte distillandi were printed, dated 18 April 1527 and 17 April '142Y'. Tne latter is generally considered to be an error for 1528. This copy (which is incomplete) is of the second edition. The only other recorded copy is in the British Library, formerly the British Museum Library, from which the present copy was discarded as a duplicate in 1788. Andreas VESALIUS Paraphrasis, in nonum librum Rhazae ... ad Regem Almansorem. Lou vain: R. Rescius. 1537. The first edition of Vesalius' first publication, presented as his thesis at the University of Louvain. Andreas VESALIUS Epistola, docens venam axillarem dextri cubiti in dolore laterali secandam. Basle: [J. Oporinus.] 1539. The first edition of Vesalius' epistle on bloodletting, recommending the drawing of blood from a vein adjacent to the seat of the ailment, a reversion to the classical procedure, in opposition to the Arabic practice of letting blood from a remote part of the body. Walter Hermann RYFF Omnium humani corporis partium descriptio, seu ut vocant anatomia. Paris: J. de Gourmont. 1545. A collection of anatomical illustrations originally published at Strasbourg in 1541, based for the most part on Vesalius and Dryander. The illustrations for the original edition have been attributed to Hans Baldung Grien. The present edition is printed from blocks cut by Cornelis Bos, who issued Latin and French versions at Antwerp in 1542. The arteries and veins from Vesalius' Tabulae sex are here superimposed on male and female figures. -12-