An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

GRAAF, Regnier de

3 entries
  • 974

De succi pancreatici natura et usu exercitatio anatomico-medica.

Leiden: ex. off. Hackiana, 1664.

De Graaf was an early investigator of the pancreatic secretion. He collected the pancreatic juice of dogs by means of artificial pancreatic fistulae, commenting on the small quantity of juice secreted and on its alkaline character. The French edition, Paris, 1666, contained a revised and enlarged text. Partial translation in J. F. Fulton, Selected readings in the history of physiology, 2nd ed., 1966, pp. 167-68. Full English translation from 2nd ed. (1671), London, 1676.



Subjects: GASTROENTEROLOGY › Anatomy & Physiology of Digestion, PHYSIOLOGY
  • 1210

De virorum organis generationi inservientibus, de clysteribus et de usu siphonis in anatomia.

Leiden: ex. off. Hackiana, 1668.

Exact and detailed account of the male reproductive system. This work and No. 1209 were translated into English and published as Suppl. 17 to J. Reprod. Fertil, 1972. Facsimile of originals, Nieuwkoop, De Graaf, 1965.



Subjects: ANATOMY › 17th Century, Genito-Urinary System
  • 1209

De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus.

Leiden: ex. off. Hackiana, 1672.

De Graaf demonstrated ovulation anatomically, pathologically and experimentally. In the above work he included the first account of the “Graafian follicle”. Translation of Chapter XII, dealing with the ovaries, by G. W. Corner in Essays in biology in honor of Herbert M. Evans, Berkeley, 1943. Complete English translation of this and No. 1210 by H.D. Jocelyn and B.P. Setchell, J. Reprod. Fertil., Suppl. 17, 1972.



Subjects: ANATOMY › 17th Century, Genito-Urinary System