1599 HÉROARD, Jean (1551 – 1568)
Hippostologie, c’est a dire, discours des os du cheval.
The first work on equine anatomy published in France. Héroard wrote the work in 1579 and the manuscript was preserved in the library of Château de Chantilly, but it was not published until 1599, one year after the pub…
GMN 13240 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15505
1675 SWAMMERDAM, Jan (1637 – 1680)
Ephemeri Vita. Of afbeeldingh van 's menschen leven, Vertoont in de Wonderbaarlijcke en nooyt gehoorde Historie van het vliegent ende een-dagh-levent Haft of Oever-aas. Een dierken, ten aansien van sijn naam, over al in Neerlandt bekent.
In his final publication Swammerdam studied the anatomy, development and behavior of the mayfly. Translated into English as Emphemeri vita: Or the natural history and anatomy of the ephemeron, a fly that lives but fiv…
GMN 13272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15538
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
1835 –1859 SHARPEY, William (1802 – 1880); TODD, Robert Bentley (1809 – 1860)
The cyclopaedia of anatomy and physiology. Edited by Robert Bentley Todd. 5 vols.
Contributors included Richard Owen and Thomas Huxley, and physicians James Paget, James Young Simpson, and William Bowman.The discoveries of Purkynĕ and Valentin, together with additional observations by William Sharp…
GMN 603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/453
1835 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
On the osteology of the chimpanzee and orang utan.
Owen was the first anatomist, after Petrus Camper, to distinguish decisively between the chimpanzee and the orangutan. He began studying the anatomy of non-human primates in the 1830s, when the Regent’s Park Zoo in Lo…
GMN 14316 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16641
1845 GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Étienne (1772 – 1844)
Catalogue des livres de sciences particulièrement de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée et d'anatomie philosophique composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire,...: dont la vente se fera le jeudi 20 novembre 1845, et jours suivants, à midi précis, au Jardin des Plantes, rue Cuvier, n° 33.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15696
1845 JOLY, Nicolas; LAVOCAT, Achille
Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques et paléontologiques sur la girafe, (Camelopardalis giraffa, Gmelin).
First comprehensive (124pp., 17 plates) anatomical study of the giraffe, conducted during a 20 day dissection of the huge animal in Toulouse. The authors entrusted the dissection to the Toulouse taxidermist, H. Traver…
GMN 13543 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15820
1849 –1856 CUVIER, Jean Léopold Chrétien Frédéric "Georges" (1769 – 1832); LAURILLARD, Charles Léopold (1783 – 1853)
Anatomie comparée. Recueil des planches de myologie dessinées par Georges Cuvier ou exécutées sous ses yeux par MM. Laurillard et Mercier.
Planned by Cuvier as his masterwork on this topic, but unpublished during his lifetime, this posthumous work was published in parts over seven years. The complete work contains 336 plates. Few complete copies exist. D…
GMN 12014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14222
1853 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
Descriptive catalogue of the osteological series contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13860 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16150
1857 –1881 MILNE-EDWARDS, Henri (1800 – 1885)
Leçons sur la physiologie et l'anatomie comparée de l'homme et des animaux faites a la Faculté des Sciences de Paris. 14 vols.
Digital facsimile of all the volumes from Google Books; vol. 1 at this link.
GMN 12016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14224
1884 LUDWIG FERDINAND, Prince of Bavaria (1859 – 1949)
Zur Anatomie der Zunge. Eine vergleichend-anatomische Studie.
One of the first and the most extensive comparative anatomical studies of the tongues of animals. The book contrasts the tongues of fish, amphibians and reptiles, birds and mammals, through various sectional illustrat…
GMN 12892 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15139
1924 SONNTAG, Charles F. (1887 – 1925)
The morphology and evolution of the apes and man. With a foreward by Professor G. Elliot Smith.
As far as I able to determine in 2024, Sonntag's book was the first attempt to write a general treatise on what eventually came to be called "human evolutionary anatomy," in the sense of studying the relationship betw…
GMN 14287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16610
1936 ARIENS KAPPERS, Cornelius Ubbo (1877 – 1946); HUBER, Gotthelf Carl (1874 – 1943); CROSBY, Elizabeth Caroline (1888 – 1983)
The comparative anatomy of the nervous system of vertebrates, including man. 2 vols.
This edition and translation was so extensively reworked and expanded by Kappers, Huber and Crosby that it should be considered a new work. See No. 1247 for the original edition in German. Order of authorship as publi…
GMN 14229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16546
2002 AIELLO, Leslie Crum (1946 – ); DEAN, M. Christopher
An introduction to human evolutionary anatomy.
GMN 14288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16611
