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24 entries published in this place. (The Hague, NL)
1634
#381.1
Anatomie der uuterlicke deelen van het menschelick lichaem: Dienende om te verstaen ende volkometlick wt te beelden alle beroerlicheit des selven lichaems.
The earliest of all independent works on anatomy for graphic or plastic artists. The author, a painter and etcher, drew and engraved all the images himself. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1651
#382
Corporis humani disquisitio anatomica.
Highmore is remembered for his description of the maxillary sinus, known eponymically as the “antrum of Highmore” (already noticed by Casserius and figured by Leonardo da Vinci), the seminal ducts and the epididymis. …
1655
#261
De vero telescopii inventore.
Borel collected evidence to show that Zacharias (sometimes called Zacharias Janssen) invented the compound microscope about 1590. Zacharias was a spectacle-maker of Middelburg, Holland.
1665
#1099
Dilucidatio valvularum in vasis lymphaticis et lacteis.
First description of the valves of the lymphatics, discovered by Ruysch. Facsimile reprint, Niewkoop, De Graaf, 1964.
1671 –1674
#2197
Praxeos medicae idea nova. 4 vols.
Sylvius was a supporter of the Iatrochemical School. At Leiden he established the first university chemical laboratory in Europe. His extensive treatise on the diseases of children was first published as volume 4 of t…
1701
#6253
Manuale operatien, I. deel zijnde een neiuw ligt voor vroed-meesters en vroed-vrouen.
This work gives the first accurate description of the female pelvis and its deformities, and the effect of the latter in complicating labor. The first edition contains a relatively unattractive frontispiece portrait o…
1726
#12958
Danubius pannonico-mysicus, observationibus geographicis, astronomicis, hydrographicis, historicis, physicis perlustratus et in sex tomos digestus. 6 vols.
An extensive illustrated work, with 283 copperplate engravings, on the natural history of the Danube river, the longest river in central Europe, which runs from southern Germany into Austria, through Slovakia, Hungary…
1729
#6379
Histoire de la médecine.
The first large history of medicine; Le Clerc is sometimes called the “Father of the History of Medicine”. The first edition appeared in 1696, but later editions are more useful. English translation, 1699. Reprint of …
1740
#8856
Bibliotheca botanica sive catalogus auctorum et librorum omnium qui de re botanica, de medicamentis ex vegetabilibus paratis, de re rustica, & de horticultura tractant. Accessit bibliotheca botanica Jo. Ant. Bumaldi seu potius O. Montalbani.
Organized in three parts: floras, medical botany, and horticultural and agricultural works. Séguier includes books, pamphlets, and references in the periodical literature. "The entries for the publications contain usu…
1741 –1750
#6837
Het Amboinsche Kruidboek . . . Herbarium Amboinense . . . nunc primum in lucem edidit & in Latinum semonem vertit Joannes Burmannus. 6 vols.
Het Amboinsche kruidboek or Herbarium Amboinense, a catalogue of the plants of Ambon in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, by Georg Eberhard Rumphius, a German-born soldier and botanist employed by the Dutch East India …
1745
#215.2
Vénus physique, contenant deux dissertations, l’une, sur l’origine des hommes et des animaux, et l’autre, sur l’origine des noirs.
English translation, The earthly Venus, was published in New York, 1966. Includes a reprint of No. 215.1.
1762
#305
Traité anatomique de la chénille, qui ronge le bois de saule. Augmenté d'une explication abrégée des planches, et d'une description de l'instrument et des outils dont l'auteur s'est servi pour anatomiser à la loupe et au microscope, & pour déterminer la forcer de ses verres, suivant les règles de l'optique, & méchaniquement.
Lyonet’s monograph on the goat moth caterpillar remains a famous example of anatomical examination. It is also a thorough treatise on the microscope and lenses that Lyonet used. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Her…
1762
#4302.1
Nouvelles observations, ou méthode certaine sur le traitement des cors.
The first formally published pamphlet (45pp.) on podiatry or chiropody. Rousselot argued that podiatry should become a specialty of surgery. Author's first name is unknown. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this l…
1781
#4305.1
Dissertation sur la meilleure forme des souliers.
Classic discussion of childhood shoe-induced deformities. There was also an edition in Dutch published the same year. Digital facsimile of the edition in French from the Internet Archive at this link. English translat…
1789
#4409
Dissertatio de fractura patellae et olecrani.
1818
#408
Afbeeldingen van de juiste plaatsing der inwendige deelen van het menschelijk ligchaam.
First anatomical illustrations of frozen sections. De Riemer appears to have been the first to freeze tissues in order to permit fine sectioning for the purposes of diagnosing diseased tissue. Digital facsimile from U…
1922
#9249
Die Zauberkraft des Auges und das Berufen. Ein Kapitel der Geschichte der Aberglaubens.
1968
#9848
Soma: Divine mushroom of immortality.
Ethnomycologist and banker Wasson provided evidence for the important role that hallucinogenic mushrooms - in particular the ubiquitous mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) - play in various ancient and modern cultu…
1975
#6533.1
A classified bibliography of the history of Dutch medicine 1900-1974.
1976
#8541
Medical anthropology. Edited by Francis X. Grollig, S. J. and Harold B. Haley.
1976
#9236
Les hommes et la peste en France et dans les pays européens et méditerranéens. Tome I: La peste dans l'histoire. Tome II: Les hommes face à la peste. 2 vols.
1977
#13277
Wernicke's works on aphasia: A sourcebook and review.
1991
#7514
Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885.
1997
#11822