Facets

1858 CE

#419

A treatise on the human skeleton, including the joints.

Humphry was professor of anatomy at Cambridge and became the first professor of surgery there. He founded the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology in 1867. “Humphry’s ligament” of the knee-joint is desc…

1672 CE

#384

Anatomia chirurgica.

First book devoted entirely to surgical anatomy.

1806 CE

#3582

Anatomisch-chirurgische Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Leistenbrüche

Includes description of “Hesselbach’s hernia” and “triangle”. He wrote a further volume on the subject in 1814.

1858 CE

#418

Anatomy, descriptive and surgical

Gray’s textbook of anatomy remains today a standard work on the subject in the English-speaking world. The 37th edition appeared in 1989; the first American edition was published at Philadelphia, 1859. Digital f…

1893 CE

#431

Atlas of head sections. Fifty-three engraved copperplates of frozen sections of the head, and fifty-three key plates with descriptive texts.

Intended to supplement and illustrate Macewen’s neurosurgical textbook published the same year (No. 4872). Includes coronal, sagittal and horizontal sections with commentary on each.

2008 CE

#13515

Cultural encyclopedia of the body. Edited by Victoria Pitts-Taylor. 2 vols.

1770 CE–1773 CE

#437.1

Histoire de l’anatomie et de la chirurgie. 6 vols.

A biobibliographical survey to 1755, including dentistry.

1811 CE

#3055

Observations on the surgical anatomy of the head and neck.

Burns was the first to suggest (p. 31) ligature of the innominate artery. His book describes “Burns’s space”, the fascial space at the suprasternal notch. The first recorded case of chloroma (myeloid…

1725 CE

#8095

Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica. Edited by Herman Boerhaave and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus. 2 vols.

Vesalius's collected works with the famous woodcuts reproduced as copperplate engravings by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759). Notably Boerhaave and Albinus had this edition published because Vesalius's works still had practi…

1851 CE

#13302

Surgical anatomy.

"The drawings of Maclise for Quain's Anatomy of the arteries and for his own Surgical anatomy are indeed done, as Quain wrote, with spirit and effect. These figures of anatomical dissection seem lifelike; in many plat…

1822 CE

#13314

System of surgical anatomy. Part first [all published]: On the structure of the groin, pelvis, and perineum. As connected with inguinal and femoral hernia; Tyeing the iliac arteries; and the operation of lithotomy. Illustrated by nine copper-plate engravings

Anderson trained at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, emigrated to America in 1820 and, after delivering a series of anatomical lectures in New York under the patronage of Valentine Mott, became affiliated w…

1834 CE

#10024

The anatomy and surgery of inguinal and femoral hernia.

Published in the same large folio format as Tuson's Myology (1828), this was the largest work on hernia ever published with multiple hand-colored. lift-up flats on three plates.

1825 CE

#13301

Traité d'anatomie chirurgicale, ou anatomie des régions, considérée dans ses rapports avec la chirurgie; ouvrage orné de quatorze planches représentant les principales régions du corps. 2 vols.

Some copies were issued with the plates hand-colored. Digital facsimile of a black & white copy from Google Books at this link.

1857 CE

#13248

Untersuchungen uber die Entwickelung des Schädelgrundes im gesunden und krankhaften Zustande und über Einfluss derselben auf Schädelform, Gesichtsbildung und Gehirnbau.

In his Investigations on the development of the base of the skull in healthy and diseased conditions, and on the influence of the same upon skull form, facial structure and brain formation Virchow laid the foundation …