1701 –1715 RUYSCH, Frederik (1638 – 1731)

Thesaurus anatomicus primus [-decimus]... Het eerste [-tiende] anatomisch cabinet....

Probably the most original artist in the history of anatomical preparations, Ruysch enjoyed making up elaborate three-dimensional emblems of mortality from his specimens. These fantastic, dream-like concoctions constr…

GMN 389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/623

1704 BAGLIVI, Giorgio (1668 – 1707)

Opera omnia medico-practica et anatomica.

Baglivi, Professor of Anatomy at Rome, had a short but brilliant career. He wrote Praxis medica and De fibra motrice, and originated the so-called “solidar” pathology; he also devoted much time to experimental physiol…

GMN 68 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1252

1707 NABOTH, Martin (1675 – 1721)

De sterilitate mulierum.

The Nabothian cysts and glands of the cervix uteri first described (sect. xv).

GMN 1216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1891

1707 DOUGLAS, James (1675 – 1742)

Myographiae comparatae specimen: or, a comparative description of all the muscles in a man and in a quadruped. Shewing their discoverer, origin, progress, insertion, use, and difference. To which is added, an account of the muscles peculiar to a woman. With an etymological table, and several useful index's.

"As for the comparative part of this treatise, or the interlacing the descriptions of the human muscles with these of the canine, that needs no apology. The many useful discoveries known from the dissection of quadrup…

GMN 13900 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16192

1708 THEBESIUS, Adam Christian (1686 – 1732)

Disputatio medica inauguralis de circulo sanguinis in corde.

First description of the coronary valves and the venae thebesii.

GMN 763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1750

1713 CHESELDEN, William (1688 – 1752)

The anatomy of the humane body.

Although Cheselden is best known for his accomplishments in the field of surgery, he wrote two important books on anatomy. The above was for many years a textbook of the English medical schools and ran through 13 edit…

GMN 390 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/626

1714 EUSTACHI, Bartolomeo [EUSTACHIUS] (1510 – 1574)

Tabulae anatomicae.

A romantic history attaches to this fine collection of plates, drawn by Eustachius himself and completed in 1552. They remained unprinted and forgotten in the Vatican Library until discovered in the early 18th century…

GMN 1312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/631

1715 VIEUSSENS, Raymond (1641 – 1715)

Traité nouveau de la structure et des causes du mouvement naturel du coeur. IN: Oeuvres françoises de M. Vieussens dédiées a nosseigneurs des états de la province de Languedoc.

The first work on cardiac anatomy and pathology. Vieussens was the first to describe the course of the coronary arteries and the coronary sinus. He also described collateral vessels connecting the left anterior descen…

GMN 7247 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9416

1719 LITTRÉ, Alexis (1658 – 1726)

Description de l’urèthre de l’homme.

“Littre’s glands” described.

GMN 1215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1889

1720 VATER, Abraham (1684 – 1751)

Dissertatio anatomica qua novum bilis diverticulum circa orificium ductus choledochi ut et valvulosam colli vesicae felleae constructionem ad disceptandum proponit.

Following Vater’s classic description of the ampulla of the bile duct, it was named the “ampulla of Vater”.

GMN 976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/600

1721 SCHUYL, Franciscus

Catalogus rerum memorabilium quae in theatro anatomico academia, quae Lugduni Batavorum floret, demonstantur per Franciscum Schuyl.

Numerous editions and translations of the catalogue of the anatomical museum of the University of Leiden were published, probably to supply the needs of medical students from various countries. Digital facsimile of th…

GMN 11314 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13512

1724 SANTORINI, Giovanni Domenico (1681 – 1737)

Observationes anatomicae.

Santorini was one of the ablest dissectors of his day. In the above work many new discoveries of anatomical details are set forth, together with corrections of some of the errors of earlier anatomists. The work descri…

GMN 392 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/649

1724 COWPER, William (1666 – 1709)

Myotomia reformata.

This work made a modest first appearance in 1694 as an octavo, but Cowper worked until his death on a new edition which was finally published posthumously under the supervision and at the expense of Richard Mead (1673…

GMN 392.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/654

1725 BOERHAAVE, Herman (1668 – 1738); VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564); ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried (1697 – 1770)

Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica. Edited by Herman Boerhaave and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus. 2 vols.

Vesalius's collected works with the famous woodcuts reproduced as copperplate engravings by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759). Notably Boerhaave and Albinus had this edition published because Vesalius's works still had practi…

GMN 8095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10271

1730 POUPART, François (1661 – 1709)

Suspenseurs de l’abdomen.

“Poupart’s ligament”, the inguinal ligament.

GMN 977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/609

1730 DOUGLAS, James (1675 – 1742)

A description of the peritonaeum, and of that part of the membrane cellularis which lies on its outside. With an account of the true situation of all the abdominal viscera, in respect of these two membranes.

Douglas described the peritoneum in detail; his name is perpetuated in the “pouch”, “line”, and “fold of Douglas”. He was a friend of John Hunter and brother of John Douglas, the lithotomist.

GMN 1217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1894

1732 CHOVET, Abraham (1704 – 1799)

A syllabus or index, of all the parts that enter the composition of the human body…For the use of those that go through courses of anatomy.

Chovet was born in England and died in Philadelphia. He made many beautiful wax models to illustrate his lectures, and was among the first to popularize the use of wax and natural preparations in the teaching of anato…

GMN 393 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/659

1732 WINSLOW, Jacques-Bénigne [Jacob Benignus Winsløw] (1669 – 1760)

Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain.

The foramen between the greater and lesser sacs of the peritoneum (described on pages 352-65), is named after Winslow. His Exposition is distinguished as being the first book on descriptive anatomy to discard physiolo…

GMN 1314 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/664

1733 CHESELDEN, William (1688 – 1752)

Osteographia, or the anatomy of the bones.

This splendidly designed and illustrated work contained full and accurate descriptions of all the human bones, as well as many of animals. Cheselden is the first person to have used the camera obscura to gain precisio…

GMN 395 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/671

1734 –1735 CASSEBOHM, Johann Friedrich (1699 – 1743)

Tractatus quatuor anatomici de aure humana. Tractatus quintus anatomicus de aure humana. Cui accedit tractatus sextus de aure monstri humani.

Important tracts on the anatomy and physiology of the ear. Cassebohm’s studies of the embryonic ear far surpassed his predecessors, including Valsalva and Morgagni, and were not themselves surpassed until the work of …

GMN 1547 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1280

1734 ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried (1697 – 1770)

Historia musculorum hominis.

Very detailed descriptions of all the muscles of the human body, with illustrations drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar depicting the muscles of the hand, life-size with all the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones.…

GMN 7552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9724

1736 ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried (1697 – 1770); LADMIRAL, Jan [l'Admiral] (1698 – 1773)

Dissertatio de arteries et venis intestinorum hominis. Adjecta icon coloribus distincta.

The small color mezzotint printed by the painter Jan Ladmiral included with this pamphlet on the arteries and veins of the human intestine was among the earliest applications of full color printing, and the first use …

GMN 7507 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9679

1737 –1747 ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried (1697 – 1770)

Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani.

The splendid series of 40 large copperplates of the bones and muscles in this work were drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759). They established a newstandard in anatomical illustration, and remain unsurpasse…

GMN 399 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/745

1739 SANTUCCI, Bernardo (1701 – 1764)

Anatomia do corpo humano, recopilada com doutrinas medicas, chimicas, filosoficas, mathematicas, com indices, e estampas, representantes todas as partes do corpo humano.

The first textbook of anatomy published by a Portuguese author in Portuguese. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 13152 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15411

1740 ROTTERDAM ANATOMICAL THEATRE

Catalogus ofte naamlyst der voornaamste zaken, dewelke op de anatomie-kamer der stadt Rotterdam te zien zyn.

Catalogue of the cabinet of curiosities of the anatomical theatre of Rotterdam, founded in 1642. Although anatomy theatres were originally established to teach anatomy and medical and surgical techniques to students a…

GMN 13098 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15350

1741 PIETRO DA CORTONA, [Pietro BERRETINI] (1596 – 1669)

Tabulae anatomicae.

27 anatomical copperplates after drawings by the most influential painter of the Italian Baroque movement, who also excelled as an architect. The editor, Cajetano Petrioli, supplied the text and small numbered anatomi…

GMN 395.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/695

1742 LIEUTAUD, Joseph (1703 – 1780)

Essais anatomiques.

Lieutaud rectified many anatomical errors, described carefully the structure and relations of the heart and its cavities, and added to the contemporary knowledge concerning the bladder. The trigonum vesicae is named “…

GMN 396 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/697

1742 WEITBRECHT, Josias (1702 – 1747)

Syndesmologia sive historia ligamentorum corporis humani.

Weitbrecht is known for “Weitbrecht’s ligament” (of the elbow), “Weitbrecht’s foramen ovale” (gap in the capsule of the shoulder joint between the glenohumeral ligaments), and “Weitbrecht’s fibers” (retinacular fibers…

GMN 396.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/705

1743 –1756 HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777)

Icones anatomicae. 8 pts.

Accurate and beautiful engravings of the diaphragm, uterus, ovaries, vagina, arteries, with explanatory observations. About fifty years after they were originally published the most visually spectacular versions of Ha…

GMN 397 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/725

1743 TAUBE, Hartwig Wilhelm Ludwig (1706 – )

Dissertationem inauguralem de vera nervi intercostalis origine.

Taube described the carotid body and named it “ganglion minutum”, See J. Pick, J. Hist. Med., 1959, 14, 61-73.

GMN 765.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1753

1745 LIEBERKÜHN, Johann Nathanael (1711 – 1756)

De fabrica et actione villorum intestinorum tenuium hominis.

“Lieberkühn’s glands” or “crypts” described. They were discovered by Malpighi in 1688.

GMN 978 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/613

1745 GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques Fabien (1716 – 1785); DU VERNEY, Guichard-Joseph (Guichard Joseph Duverney) (1648 – 1730)

Essai d’anatomie en tableaux imprimés, qui represent au naturel tous les muscles de la face, du col, de la tête, de la langue & du larinx. d'après les parties disséquées & préparées par Monsieur Duverney....comprenant hit grandes planches.

Remarkable for its striking mezzotints printed in color. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 398 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/739

1748 GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques Fabien (1716 – 1785); DU VERNEY, Guichard-Joseph (Guichard Joseph Duverney) (1648 – 1730)

Anatomie de la tête, en tableaux imprimés qui représentent au naturel le cerveau sous différentes coupes, la distribution des vaisseaux dans toutes les parties de la tête, les organes des sens et une partie de la névrologie, d'après les pièces disséquées et préparées par M. Duverney, en huit grandes planches dessinées, peintes, gravées et imprimées en couleur et grandeur naturelle....

Includes eight spectacular plates printed in color by Gautier d'Agoty with text by Duvereny. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 7491 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9663

1750 TARIN, Pierre (1725 – 1761)

Anthropotomie, ou L'Art de disséquer les muscles, les ligamens, les nerfs, & les vaisseaux sanguins du corps humain; auquel on a joint une histoire succincte de ces vaisseaux; avec la manière de faire les injections; de préparer, de blanchir les os & de dresser les squelettes. De préparer toutes les différentes parties & de les conserver préparées, soit dans une liqueur propre à cet effet, soit en les faisant sécher; celle d'ouvrir & d'embaumer les cadavres. On y donne aussi la description des matières propres à chacune de ces préparations, & la figure des instrumens. 2 vols.

An exceptionally thorough manual on dissection, dressing skeletons, and creating "anatomical preparations," and embalming. Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.

GMN 10122 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12311

1752 EISENMANN, George Heinrich (1693 – 1768)

Tabulae anatomicae quatuor uteri duplicis.

Atlas of bipartite and double uterus.

GMN 6018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7219

1753 TARIN, Pierre (1725 – 1761)

Dictionaire anatomique suivi d'une bibliothèque anatomique et physiologique.

An anatomical dictionary with most of the entries cross referenced to related structures, followed by a very extensive bibliography of anatomical and physiological works. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 7800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9972

1754 GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques Fabien (1716 – 1785)

Anatomie generale des visceres, et de la nevrologie, angeologie et osteologie du corps humain, en figures, de couleurs et grandeurs naturelles dediée et présentée.

Includes 18 full-page color-printed mezzotints, 12 of the plates designed to fit together in threes to make four life-size human figures. Gautier credited Mertrud, the King's Surgeon with some of the anatomical work i…

GMN 7492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9664

1755 ZINN, Johann Gottfried (1727 – 1759)

Descriptio anatomica oculi humani.

The first complete study of the anatomy of the eye, including the first description of the “zonule of Zinn” and the “annulus of Zinn”.

GMN 1484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2499

1756 JENTY, Charles Nicholas (1720 – 1770)

An essay on the demonstration of the human structure, half as large as nature, in four tables, from the pictures painted after dissections, for that purpose.

Four large mezzotint plates issued with an accompanying text.

GMN 7489 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9661

1759 MONRO, Alexander, Primus (1697 – 1767); SUE, Jean-Joseph (1710 – 1792)

Traité d'ostéologie. 2 vols.

Monro Primus' textbook on the anatomy of the bones was originally published in 1726 as an octavo volume without plates, and went through more than ten editions. The French translation, published in large folio, transl…

GMN 7006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9172

1760 WESTPHAL, Andreas (1720 – 1788)

Verzeichnis der Práparaten welche auf dem anatomischen Theater der Akademie zu Greifswald befindlich sich nebst einer Vorrede von dem Einfluß der Zergliederungskunst in die glückseligkeit eines Staats.

First printed catalogue of the anatomical preparations in the Anatomical Theatre and Institute directed by the professor of anatomy, Andreas Westphal.

GMN 13238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15503

1763 CLOSSY, Samuel (1724 – 1786)

Observations on some of the diseases of the parts of the human body. Chiefly taken from the dissections of morbid bodies.

Clossy, an Irish physician, previously at Trinity College, Dublin, gave the first anatomy classes and dissections at King’s College in New York City (now Columbia) in 1763. Clossy worked closely with other King’s Coll…

GMN 10989 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13185

1770 –1773 PORTAL, Antoine (1742 – 1832)

Histoire de l’anatomie et de la chirurgie. 6 vols.

A biobibliographical survey to 1755, including dentistry.

GMN 437.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1091

1774 HEWSON, William (1739 – 1774)

Experimental inquiries: Part the second. Containing a description of the lymphatic system in the human subject and in other animals. Together with observations on the lymph, and the changes which it undergoes in some diseases.

Hewson gave the first complete account of the anatomical peculiarities of the lymphatics. He divided the lymphatics into two groups – superficial and deep. He described the leucocytes as derived from the lymphatic gla…

GMN 1102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1122

1774 KULMUS, Johann Adam (1689 – 1745); SUGITA, Genpaku (杉田 玄白) (1733 – 1817)

Kaitai Shinsho (解体新書 Kyūjitai: 解體新書,(Anatomical Tables). A translation of Johan Adam Kulmus's Ontleedkundige Tafelen by Sugita Genpaku.

The first translation of any Western medical text into Japanese. "Kaitai Shinsho represented the beginning of two epoch-making developments. First and most directly Gempaku's work set in motion the modern transformati…

GMN 6835 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8999

1775 SANTORINI, Giovanni Domenico (1681 – 1737)

Septemdecim tabulae…

Santorini died before the completion of these anatomical plates which he intended to be his chef d’oeuvre. This elegantly printed volume is the only significant medical book printed by the celebrated Giambattista Bodo…

GMN 399.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/748

1779 GAMELIN, Jacques (1738 – 1803)

Nouveau recueil d’ostéologie et de myologie…

“Without contest the most beautiful of all anatomies for the artist and one of the most remarkable books of its time” (Hahn & Dumaitre). The plates in this work are more fantastic than any other anatomy, suggesting th…

GMN 401.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/781

1784 –1790 CAMPER, Petrus (Pieter) (1722 – 1789)

Sämmtliche kleinere Schriften. 3 vols.

Camper, an artist of skill, made his mark as an anthropologist and craniologist. He discovered the processus vaginalis of the peritoneum and the fibrous structure of the eye, and made several other important contribut…

GMN 77 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1303

1786 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)

Observations on certain parts of the animal oeconomy.

Includes John Hunter’s observations on the secondary sexual characteristics in birds, on the descent of the testis, on the air sac in birds, on the structure of the placenta, etc., together with the original descripti…

GMN 309 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/124

1786 VICQ D’AZYR, Félix (1748 – 1794)

Traité d’anatomie et de physiologie avec des planches coloriées répresentant au naturel les divers organes de l’homme et des animaux. Tome premier [all published].

The most accurate neuroanatomical work produced before the advent of microscopic staining techniques. Vicq d’Azyr identified accurately for the first time many of the cerebral convolutions, along with various internal…

GMN 401.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/792