An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzeuge. 1 vol. and atlas.

Göttingen: in der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1836.

A pioneering study of the physiology and biomechanics of motion and locomotion. The atlas contains four illustrations that were printed directly from actual bones embedded in plaster of Paris. This is one of the only medical books that included illustrations printed by a "nature printing" process. Translated into English by P. Maquet and R. Furlong, as Mechanics of the human walking apparatus, Berlin: Springer, 1992.



Subjects: Biomechanics, PHYSICAL MEDICINE / REHABILITATION › Kinesiology, PHYSIOLOGY › Biophysics
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