Sales catalogue 12: R. Lier & Co.

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/8
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 12: R. Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tises are here contained: De diapragmatis musculis. De membrana pupillari. Strena anatomica, ete. At the end a list of Haller’s works. — Nice copy. 131. HARRIS, Walter. De morbis acutis infantum. 4 leaves, 51 pp., 2 leaves. 8vo. Wrappers. Amsterdam, 1698. Frs. 30.— Second edition. Scarce. Excellent book ov diseases of children which was the popular treatise on pediatrics for about 100 years. ‘‘ A remarkable follower and protégé of Sydenham was Walter Harris (1647- 1732), of Gloucester. His treatise on acute diseases in infants, remarkable for some prevision of the doctrine of acidosis, was reprinted and trans- lated many times and held the field until the time of Underwood ’’. (Garrison). 132. HARRIS, W. De morbis acutis infantum. Acc. de morbis aliquot gravioribus et de luis venereae origine, natura et curatione. — Ketelaer, V. De aphtis nostratibus seu Belgarum Sprouw. Two parts. 8 leaves, 216 pp., 4 leaves, 44 pp., 1 leaf. 8vo. Modern half vellum. Amsterdam, 1715. Frs. 25.— Proksch 1, 124. This edition is enlarged by a treatise on syphilis and another work by Ketelaer. 133. HARVEY, William. Exercitationes anatomicae de motu cordis et sanguinis circulatione. Acc. Dissertatio de corde Jacobi de Back. 16 leaves, 285 pp., 9 leaves, 252 pp., 12 leaves. With en- graved frontispiece and two full-page engravings in the text, 12mo. Original vellum. Rotterdam, Leers, 1660. Frs. 400.— VERY RARE EDITION OF HARVEY’S DE MOTU CORDIS WITH DE BACK’S DISSERTATIO DE CORDE. Keynes, Harvey, nr. 9. ‘‘ The name that stands out in bold relief in tho 17th cent. for its influence upon modern medicine is preeminently that of Harvey and in- decd, is second only to that of Vesalius in importance of service. Even as Vesalius broke away from the Galenical theories of anatomy, so Harvey opened up a new and independent concept with regard to the circulation, which from the time of Galen had led so many physicians astray. Not only was Harvey the first to prove the circulation of the blood, but he succeeded in popularizing his discovery and his demon- strations were so convincing that religious opposition could find no ar- gument to interpose. The crucial argument of Harvey’s theory was, that the actual quantity and velocity of the blood, as caleulated by him, made it physically impossible for it to do otherwise than to return to the heart by way of the veins, and it was the mathematical demonstration of this fact that made a mechanical science of physiology ’’. (Bishop, History of cardiology, Medical Life, vol. 33, nr. 9, 1926). De Back, (physician at Amsterdam) was one of the first adherents of Harvey’s theories. Dedicated with a long preface to Harvey, this work is written in entire harmony with the Harveian principles. Some waterstains on first and last leaves, but good copy. Harvey, W., De motu cordis, see also N. 170. 134. (HECQUET). Novus medicinae conspectus ubi ex san- guinis circuitus anomaliis secretionum errata deducuntur. Pars phy- Prices in Swiss Franes
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