1847 HYRTL, Josef (1810 – 1894)
Handbuch der topographischen Anatomie. 2 vols.
Hyrtl, professor of anatomy at Vienna, published the first text on topographical anatomy in German. He was for 30 years the most popular lecturer on the subject in Europe, and ranks as one of the greatest of medical s…
GMN 414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/941
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
1870 HEITZMANN, Carl (1836 – 1896)
Die descriptive und topographische Anatomie des Menschen.
GMN 423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1003
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
1885 DALTON, John Call (1825 – 1889)
Topographical anatomy of the brain. 3 vols.
The most outstanding American neurological atlas of the nineteenth century and one of the best American photographically illustrated medical books of the period. The atlas reproduces the specimens, which Dalton prepar…
GMN 7332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9503
1899 ADDISON, Christopher (1869 – 1951)
On the topographical anatomy of abdominal viscera in man, especially the gastrointestinal canal.
“Addison’s transpyloric plane”. Addison was Britain’s first Minister of Health (1919-21).
GMN 1023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/921
1907 SMITH, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871 – 1937)
A new topographical survey of the human cerebral cortex, being an account of the distribution of the anatomically distinct cortical areas and their relationship to the cerebral sulci.
Elliot Smith, Professor of Anatomy at Cairo, Manchester, and University College, London, initiated modern studies of cerebral function with his work on the cortical pattern of the human brain. He identified 50 areas.
GMN 1433 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2220
1911 DOYEN, Eugène-Louis (1859 – 1916)
Atlas d'anatomie topographique. 7 parts in 12.
With J.-P. Bouchon and R. Doyen. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9915
1937 –1960 PERNKOPF, Eduard (1888 – 1955)
Topographische Anatomie des Menschen. Lehrbuch und Atlas der regionär-stratigraphischen Präparation. 4 vols. in 7. Vol. 1 in 2 pts: Brust un Brustgliedmasse, 1937; Vol. 2 in 2 pts: Bauch, Becken und Beckengliedmasse, 1941; Vol. 3: Der Hals, 1952; Vol. 4 in 2 pts: Topographische und stratigraphischen Anatomie des Kopfes, 1957, 1960.
Pernkopf's anatomy is remarkable for the intricacy of its detailed images and its "regional stratigraphic" approach, i.e. "multiple layers of dissection with an emphasis on fascia shown and reflected, approaching the …
GMN 10200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12389
