1563 –1564 EUSTACHI, Bartolomeo [EUSTACHIUS] (1510 – 1574)

Opuscula anatomica.

Eustachius is credited with several anatomical discoveries, among them the tensor tympani muscle and the Eustachian tube, published in his chapter entitled De auditus organis. In the last respect, however, he was anti…

GMN 1093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/159

1577 FERRARI, Ognibene (Omnibonus Ferrarius) ( – 1599)

De arte medica infantium libri quatuor. Quorum duo Priores de tuenda eorum sanitate, posteriores de curandis morbis agunt.

An early illustrated work on pediatrics. The three parts of his book deal with the management of the nurse and her milk, the care and feeding of the new-born, and diseases of children, including skin diseases, and cha…

GMN 7990 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10166

1792 DANZ, Ferdinand Georg (1761 – 1793)

Von Menschen ohne Haare und Zähne.

Hereditary ectodermal dysplasia first described. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 6358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8255

1826 DEVERGIE, Marie-Guillaume-Alphonse (1798 – 1879)

Clinique de la maladie syphilitique. Enrichie d’observations communiquées par messieurs Cullerier oncle, Cullerier neveu, Bard, Gama, Desruelles et autre médecins. Text and atlas.

Includes 126 hand-colored engraved plates from drawings by Dupont the elder, assisted by Delestre the younger and Verollot, engraved by Johann Theodor Susemihl, a German engraver working in Paris, known for his zoolog…

GMN 10529 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12722

1835 QUETELET, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796 – 1874)

Sur l’homme et le développement des facultés, ou essai de physique sociale. 2 vols.

Quetelet’s statistical researches on the development of the physical and intellectual qualities of man, and an exposition of his concept of the “average man”, which became the by-word of quantitative studies. "Quétele…

GMN 1698.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2457

1865 PRUNER, Franz Ignaz [PRUNER-BEY] (1808 – 1882)

De la chevelure comme caractéristique des races humaines.

Pruner-Bey did the first important work on the classification of races according to texture and shape in section of hair. Digital facsimile from Persee.fr at this link.

GMN 168 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3249

2020 HAMBLIN, James Richard (1982 – )

Clean: The new science of skin.

"A preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this informative and entertaining introduction to the new science of skin…

GMN 13039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15289