1818 RIEMER, Pieter de (1760 – 1831)
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…
GMN 408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/860
1831 RIEMER, Pieter de (1760 – 1831)
Beredeneerde beschrijving van het Museum Anatomico-Physiologicum van P. de Riemer.
Digital facsimile from Universiteit Utrecht at this link.
GMN 9807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11995
1852 –1859 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Anatome topographica sectionibus per corpus humanum congelatum triplici directione ductis illustrata. 8 pts.
Pirogov was the greatest of Russian surgeons. He introduced the teaching of applied topographical anatomy in Russia. His atlas of 220 plates represents the first use on a grand scale of frozen sections in anatomical i…
GMN 416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/950
1858 LE GENDRE, Eugène-Quintien (1823 – )
Anatomie chirurgicale homolographique, ou Déscription et figures des principales regions du corps humain, representées de grandeur naturelle, d'après des sections planes pratiquées sur des cadavres congeles....
Contains 25 plates lithographed by Lemercier after drawings by the author representing natural size sections taken in horizontal, sagittal and oblique planes from various portions of the body. The first plate of the s…
GMN 13193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15454
1864 DEAN, John (1831 – 1888)
The gray substance of the medulla oblongata and trapezium.
The first American medical book illustrated with photomechanically reproduced plates. Oliver Wendell Holmes praised the book for its remarkable photomicrographs, which may be the first published of brain cross-section…
GMN 7331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9502
1872 BRAUNE, Christian Wilhelm (1831 – 1892)
Topographisch-anatomischer Atlas. Nach Durchschnitten angefrornen Cadavern.
Fine illustrations of frozen sections. Translated into English by Edward Bellamy as An atlas of topographical anatomy after plane sections of frozen bodies. (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1877).
GMN 424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1010
1872 BRAUNE, Christian Wilhelm (1831 – 1892)
Die Lage des Uterus und Foetus am Ende der Schwangerschaft nach Durchschnitten an gefrornen Cadavern
Supplement to No. 424.
GMN 6188 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7527
1881 DWIGHT, Thomas (1843 – 1911); QUINCY, Henry Parker (1833 – 1899)
Frozen sections of a child by Thomas Dwight. Fifteen drawings from nature by H. P. Quincy.
The first atlas of cross-sectional anatomy published in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link
GMN 7645 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9817
1887 SYMINGTON, Johnson (1851 – 1924)
The topographical anatomy of the child.
The first part of this work concerns cross-sectional anatomy; the second part systematically discusses the differences between anatomy in children and adults of different parts of the body.
GMN 14019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16326
1892 WEBSTER, John Clarence (1863 – 1950)
Researches in female pelvic anatomy.
The first cross-sectional anatomy of the pelvic anatomy during the puerperium, the period of about six weeks after childbirth during which the mother's reproductive organs return to their original non-pregnant conditi…
GMN 10568 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12761
1893 MACEWEN, Sir William (1848 – 1924)
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.
GMN 431 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1035
1901 –1905 PONFICK, Emil (1844 – 1913)
Topographischer Atlas der medizinisch-chirurgischen Diagnostik. Topographic Atlas medico-surgical diagnosis. Atlas Topographique de diagnostic médico-chirurgical. 5 parts.
Contains 30 chromolithographed plates of cross-sectional anatomy made from frozen sections, with accompanying uncolored outline plates and text, published in German, English and French. Digital facsimile from biusante…
GMN 13226 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15490
1911 EYCLESHYMER, Albert Chauncey (1867 – 1925); JONES, Thomas S "Tom" (1885 – 1961); SMITH, Carroll (1878 – 1966); POTTER, Peter (1875 – ); SCHOEMAKER, Daniel Martin (1867 – 1951)
A cross-section anatomy, by Albert C. Eycleshymer and Daniel M. Schoemaker. Average position of organs from eleven reconstructions, by Peter Potter. Sections of the female pelvis, by Carroll Smith. Drawings by Tom Jones.
The historical introduction includes a bibliographical history of cross-sectional anatomies from frozen sections. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7644 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9816
1954 SINGER, Marcus (1914 – 1994); YAKOVLEV, Paul Ivan (1894 – 1983)
The human brain in sagittal section.
A superb atlas is based on sagittal sections. This was an innovative approach for the time as almost all previous illustration of the adult human brain was typically based on frontal or horizontal sections: “in conseq…
GMN 7351 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9523
1961 YAKOVLEV, Paul Ivan (1894 – 1983); ANGEVINE, Jay Bernard Jr. (1928 – 2012); MANCALL, Elliott L. (1927 – 2013)
The human cerebellum. An atlas of gross topography in serial sections.
GMN 7352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9524
1991 ELLIS, Harold (1926 – ); LOGAN, Bari M.; DIXON, Adrian Kendall (1948 – )
Human cross-sectional anatomy: Atlas of body sections and CT images.
GMN 7718 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9890
1991 BERGMAN, Ronald Arly (1927 – ); AFIFI, Adel K.; JEW, Jean A.; RIEMANN, Paul C.
Atlas of human anatomy in cross section.
"We were impressed with the magnitude and depth of the work by Eycleshymer and Schoemaker, A Cross-Section Anatomy, published by D. Appleton Company in 1911, and now out of print. As a consequence, our goal was to pro…
GMN 11140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13336
2006 TAMRAZ, Jean Churcri (1954 – ); COMAIR, Youssef G.
Atlas of regional anatomy of the brain using MRI with functional correlations
Though this book is intended for clinical and neurosurgical applications, the authors take an historical approach. Chapter 1 is "Historical review of cross-sectional anatomy of the brain."
GMN 12732 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14978
