1471 MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (يوحنا بن ماسويه) (777 – 857)

Opera medicinalia. Ed: Peregrinus Cavalcobovis, with a preface by Nicolaus Gupalatinus. Consisting of: Canones universales. De simplicibus. Grabadin. Practica.

This undated edition, which the ISTC im00508000 catalogues as "not before 18 May 1471", may be the earliest printed edition of the writings of the medieval Persian or Assyrian Nestorian Christian physician Yuhanna ibn…

GMN 10960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13156

1479 ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322); WILLEM VAN MOERBEKE, (Gulielmus de Moerbecum; William of Moerbeke) (1215 – 1286); BOËTHIUS, Anicius Manlius Severinus (420 – 524); PORRÉE, Gilbert de la [Gilbert of Poitiers, Gilbertus Poretanus or Pictaviensis] (1085 – 1154); JACOBUS VENETICUS, [James of Venice, Giacomo da Venezia, Jacobus Veneticus Grecus, Jacobus de Venetiis] (1100 – 1165)

Opera. In four parts dated: I) 15 Sept. 1479; II) 13 Oct. 1479; III) 21 Oct. 1479; IV) 8 Nov. 1479. Contents: [I] Praedicamenta, De interpretatione, Analytica priora (Tr: Boethius). Add: Porphyrius: Isagoge in Aristotelis Praedicamenta (Tr: Boethius). Gilbertus Porretanus: Liber sex principiorum. Boethius: Divisiones. [II] Analytica posteriora (Tr: Jacobus Veneticus). [III] Sophistici elenchi, Topica (Tr: Boethius). [IV] Physica (Tr: Guilelmus de Moerbeka).

Aristotle, at one time tutor to Alexander the Great, was, among other things, the first observational biologist, and the founder of comparative anatomy. His views had a profound influence in determining the direction …

GMN 17 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/39

1483 ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322); AVERROËS [IBN RUSHD (ARABIC: ابن رشد‎), FULL NAME ʾABŪ L-WALĪD MUḤAMMAD IBN ʾAḤMAD IBN RUŠD] (1126 – 1198); WILLEM VAN MOERBEKE, (Gulielmus de Moerbecum; William of Moerbeke) (1215 – 1286); BOËTHIUS, Anicius Manlius Severinus (420 – 524); JACOBUS VENETICUS, [James of Venice, Giacomo da Venezia, Jacobus Veneticus Grecus, Jacobus de Venetiis] (1100 – 1165); VERNIA, Nicoletto (1420 – 1499); SCOT, Michael [Michael Scotus] (1175 – 1232); DURANDUS DE ALVERNIA (1250 – ); PORPHYRIOS, [Porphyri; Πορφύριος] (234 – 305)

Opera. With the commentary of Averroes. Edited by Nicoletus Vernia. 8 parts.

First edition of the collected works of Aristotle with the commentaries of Averroes, by which Aristotle was mainly studied during the Middle Ages. The purpose of Vernia's edition was to provide an accurate edition of …

GMN 9399 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11582

1490 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); ABANO, Pietro d' [Petrus de Abano] (1257 – 1316); CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN (CONSTANTINUS AFRICANUS) (1015 – 1087); BONARDI, Diomede (1450 – ); NICOLAUS DE REGIO, (Nicolaus Rheginiensis, Reginus) (1250 – ); TOLETANUS, Marcus (1150 – 1216); PISTORIENSIS, Accursius (1250 – ); GERARD OF CREMONA, (Gerardus Cremonensis) (1114 – 1187); WILLEM VAN MOERBEKE, (Gulielmus de Moerbecum; William of Moerbeke) (1215 – 1286); BURGUNDIO OF PISA (1110 – 1193)

Galeni Opera. Edited by Diomedes Bonardus. Translated from the Greek by Nicolaus de Regio, Marcus Toletanus, Petrus de Abano, Accursius Pistoriensis, Guilelmus de Moerbeka, Burgundio of Pisa, Gerardus Cremonensis and Constantinus Africanus. With poem to the author of Johannes Pyrrhus Pincius. 2 vols.

The first printed edition of Galen's writings pulled together texts from numerous translators. ISTC No. ig00037000. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

GMN 8438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10615

1495 –1498 ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322); THEOPHRASTUS OF ERESOS (ΘΕΌΦΡΑΣΤΟΣ) (371 – 287); PORPHYRIOS, [Porphyri; Πορφύριος] (234 – 305); ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS, [ Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς] (170 – ); PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA, (Φίλων; Philo Judaeus)

Aristotle. [Opera omnia]. 5 vols.

Between November 1495 and June 1498 scholar printer Aldus Manutius (Teobaldo Mannucci) of Venice issued the first edition in the original Greek of Aristotle's Opera omnia. The set appeared in five thick quarto or smal…

GMN 8395 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10572

1504 ARNALD OF VILLANOVA, (Arnaldus de Villa Nova; Arnau de Vilanova; Arnaldus Villanovanus; Arnaud de Ville-Neuve; Arnaldo de Villanueva) (1240 – 1311)

Hec sunt opera Arnaldi de Villa noua que in hoc volumine continentur.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 8345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10521

1525 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); TORRESANO, Andrea (Torresani, Andrea Asolano) (1451 – 1528); OPIZO, Johannes Baptista (Giovanni Baptista Oppizoni) (1485 – 1532)

Librorum pars prima [-quinta] … 5 vols.

Greek editio princeps of Galen's complete works in Greek, edited by the Paduan professor G. B. Oppizzoni [Opizo] with the help of John Clement , Edward Wotton, William Rose (ca. 1490-1525), and Thomas Lupset, all Engi…

GMN 27 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4692

1525 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); CALVO, Marco Fabio [Marcus Fabius Calvus, Fabius Rhavennatus] (1450 – 1527)

Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, octoginta volumnia quibus maxima ex parte, annorum circiter duo millia Latina caruit lingua. . . .translated by Marco Fabio Calvo

The first collected edition of the Hippocratic collection in the Latin translation of Marco Fabio Calvo of Ravenna, dedicated to Pope Clement VII. "This volume, which preceded the first, Aldine, edition of the Greek t…

GMN 6820 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8983

1526 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); TORRESANO, Andrea (Torresani, Andrea Asolano) (1451 – 1528)

Opera omnia.

First edition of the Greek text of the works of Hippocrates, issued by Aldus Manutius of Venice one year after the first complete edition in Latin was issued in Rome. The Aldine text was edited by Aldus's brother-in-l…

GMN 6931 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9096

1526 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); LEONICENO, Niccolò [Nicolaus Leonicenus] (1428 – 1524); COPP, Wilhelm (1460 – 1532); CALVO, Marco Fabio [Marcus Fabius Calvus, Fabius Rhavennatus] (1450 – 1527); ALTHAMER, Andreas [Andreas Brentius; Altheimer] (1500 – 1539)

Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, opera: quibus maxima ex parte annorum circiter duo millia Latina caruit lingua: Graeci vero & Arabes, & prisci nostri Medici, plurimis tamen utilibus prætermissis, scripta sua illustrarunt: nunc tandem per M. Fabiu Rhauennatem, Gulielmum Copum Basiliensem, Nicolaum Leonicenu & Andream Brentium, viros doctissimos Latinate donata, ac iamprimu in lucem aedita: quo revera humano generi nihil fieri potuit salubrius.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 9079 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11258

1532 LEONICENO, Niccolò [Nicolaus Leonicenus] (1428 – 1524); LEENNIUS, Andreas

Nicolai Leoniceni ....Opuscula: quorum catalogum versa pagina indicabit. Per. D. Andream Leennium medicum, à multis quibus scatebant vitiis, repurgata atque annotatiunculis illustrata.

First edition of Leoniceno's collected works edited by Andreas Leennius, about whom little is known. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 11176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13373

1533 –1534 AETIUS OF AMIDA [ἈΈΤΙΟΣ ἈΜΙΔΗΝΌΣ; AETIUS AMIDENUS; AËTIUS] (450 – 550); CORNARIUS, Janus (1500 – 1558); MONTANUS, Johannes Baptista [Giovanni Battista Monte] (1498 – 1551)

Aetii Amideni quem alii Antiochenum vocant medici clarissimi libri XVI. tomos divisi : quorum primus & ultimus Ioan. Baptista Montano Veronensi medico, secundus Iano Cornario Zuiccauiensi, & ipso medicinae professore, interpretibus latinitate donati sunt. In quo opere cuncta quae ad curandi artem pertinent congesta sunt, ex omnibus qui usq[ue] ad eius tempora scripserant, diligentissime excerpta. Additus est index in omneis tomos copiosissimus. 3 vols.

J. B. Montanus and Janus Cornarius prepared the first edition of Aetius's collected works in Latin translation. That edition was the first to include Aetius's writings on obstetrics, which epitomized all previous know…

GMN 6974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9140

1536 CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN (CONSTANTINUS AFRICANUS) (1015 – 1087); PETRUS HISPANUS, Pope John XXI (Pedro Hispano; Peter of Spain) (1226 – 1277); ISAAC JUDAEUS [ABU YA'QUB ISHAQ IBN SULAIMAN AL ISRA’ILI’], (Isaac Israeli ben Solomon) (832 – 932); TURINI, Andrea (Andreas Turinus) (1473 – 1543)

Omnia opera Ysaac in hoc volumini contenta: cum quibusdam alijs opusculis: Liber de definitionibus. Liber de elementis. Liber dietaru[m] vniversalium: cum co[m]me[n]to Petri Hispani. Liber dietarum particularium ... Liber de vrinis cum commento eiusdem. Liber de febribus. Pantechni decem libri theorices: et decem practices: cum tractatu de gradibus medicinarum Constantini. Viaticum Ysaac quod constantinus sibi attribuit. Liber de oculis Constantini. Liber des stomacho Constantini. Liber virtutum de simplici medicina Constantini. Compendium megatechni Galeni a Constantino compositum ; Cum tabula [et] repertorio omnium operum et questionum in co[m]mentis contentarum. Edited by Andreas Turinus.

Constantine was a Muslim from North Africa who converted to Christianity. His writings were first published with those of Isaac Judaeus in the above edition which includes many separate texts. Many of the writings of …

GMN 46 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8767

1542 MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (يوحنا بن ماسويه) (777 – 857); DUBOIS, Jacques [Jacobus Sylvius] (1478 – 1555)

Joannis Mesuae Damasceni De re medica libri tres Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete.

Dubois, better known as Sylvius, produced a new translation of the complete works of Mesue, which became the standard text, and was reprinted 21 times. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 9415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11598

1548 ALEXANDER OF TRALLES [ἈΛΈΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΌΣ; ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS] (525 – 605); RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی‎ ] (854 – 925); GOUPYL, Jacques (Goupil) (1525 – 1564)

Alexandrū Trallianū Iatrū Biblia Dyokaideka. Alexandri Tralliani medici libri XII. Rhazae De pestilentia libellus ex Syrorum lingua in Graecam translatus. Edited by Jacques Goupil.

First edition of the Greek text of the works of Alexander of Tralles, together with an edition of Rhazes on the plague. Both texts were edited by Jacques Goupil. The work was issued by the distinguished scholar printe…

GMN 11111 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13307

1575 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590)

Les oeuvres de M. Ambroise Paré.

Paré was the greatest of the army surgeons before Larrey. Born in poor circumstances, he became the most famous surgeon in France. He is particularly remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cautery (No. …

GMN 5565 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6944

1587 MONTANUS, Johannes Baptista [Giovanni Battista Monte] (1498 – 1551); WEINRICH, Martin [Martinus Weindrich]

Medicina universa, ex lectiones eius caeterisque opusculis, tum impressis, tum scriptis collecta, & in tres tomos nunc primum decenti ordine digesta, studio & opera Martini Weindrichii.

Montanus became a professor of practical medicine at Ferrara and at the University of Padua in 1539. His greatest innovation was to introduce clinical medicine into the curriculum as a way to integrate medical theory …

GMN 11101 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13297

1589 –1591 PARACELSUS, [Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim] (1493 – 1541); HUSER, Johannes (1545 – 1604)

Der Bücher und Schriften des Edlen, Hochgelehrten und Bewehrten Philosophi und Medici, Philipi Thephrasti Bombast von Hohen hem, Paracelsi genannt. Edited by Johannes Huser. 10 vols.

First edition of Paracelsus's collected works. Though all the autographs of Paracelsus's writings were later lost, Huber, who was born shortly after Paracelsus's death, was able to collect a great number of autographs…

GMN 8466 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10643

1595 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); FOËS, Anuce [FOESIUS] (1528 – 1595)

Magni Hippocratis medicorum omnium facile principis, opera omnia quae extant in viii sectiones....

The French humanist physician Foës produced the first Greek & Latin edition of the complete extant works of Hippocrates. His edition was the most significant before that of Littré.

GMN 6930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9095

1599 –1667 ALDROVANDI, Ulisse [ALDROVANDUS] (1522 – 1605)

Opera omnia. 13 vols.

Aldrovandi, first director of the botanical garden at Bologna, was a prolific writer. Some of his writings made their first appearance in print after his death. He designed them as a whole to form an enormous illustra…

GMN 290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8831

1603 CAPIVACCIO, Girolamo (1520 – 1589)

Opera omnia quinque sectionibus comprehensa.

Demonstration (Cap. I, p. 587-91) that some people who cannot hear by air conduction can do so by bone conduction.

GMN 3343.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4619

1645 SPIEGHEL, Adriaan van der [SPIGELIUS] (1578 – 1625); LINDEN, Johannes Antonides van der (1609 – 1664)

Opera quae extant omnia. Ex recension Joh. Antonidae vander Linden.

Spieghel succeeded Casseri in the chair of anatomy at Padua. This edition of his collected writings contains the second printing of the 97 copperplates first printed in Casseri’s Tabulae anatomicae (No. 381) plus 9 ex…

GMN 61.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8777

1646 FABRY VON HILDEN, Wilhelm (Fabricius Hildanus) (1560 – 1624)

Opera quae extant omnia, partim ante hac excusa, partim nunc recens in lucem edita; omnia abo authore recognita...aucta.

The collected works of the “father of German surgery”. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBiliothek at this link. German translation: Wund-Artzney, gantzes Werck und aller Bücher, so viel deren vorhanden, wel…

GMN 60.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/971

1660 BOTALLO, Leonardo (BOTALLUS) (1519 – 1587)

Opera omnia medica et chirurgica.

“Botallo’s duct”, the ductus arteriosus; “Botallo’s foramen”, the foramen ovale interauriculare; and “Botallo’s ligament”, the ligamentum arteriosum, are described in this work. However two of these traditional attrib…

GMN 802.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/559

1663 CARDANO, Girolamo [Gerolamo; Hieronymus Cardanus] (1501 – 1576)

Opera omnia: Tam hactenus excusa, hîc tamen aucta & emendata, quàm nunquam aliàs visa ac primùm ex auctoris ipsius autographis eruta curâ Caroli Sponii .... 10 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Università degli Studi di Milano at this link.

GMN 9576 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11763

1674 RIVIÈRE, Lazare [RIVERIUS] (1589 – 1655)

Opera medica universa.

Riverius was the first to note aortic stenosis (p. 638 of the above).

GMN 2727 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4479

1676 SENNERT, Daniel (1572 – 1637)

Opera. 6 vols.

Besides giving early accounts of scarlatina and rubella, Sennert added to the knowledge of scurvy, dysentery and alcoholism. He was an able clinician and also a believer in witchcraft. His Opera was first published in…

GMN 61 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/975

1676 –1680 WILLIS, Thomas (1621 – 1675)

Opera omnia. 2 vols.

Willis was remarkable for his careful clinical observation. He was second only to Sydenham in his day. To him we owe the original descriptions of several conditions. Digital facsimile of the Lyon, 1681 edition from th…

GMN 62 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/990

1679 LE BÖE, Franz de [FRANCISCUS SYLVIUS] (1614 – 1672)

Opera medica.

Tuberculosis was known to the ancients only in its advanced form, and little progress was made in the knowledge of the condition until the time of Sylvius. He asserted that tubercles are often to be found in the lung …

GMN 2321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3015

1684 WILLIS, Thomas (1621 – 1675); PORDAGE, Samuel (1633 – 1691)

Dr. Willis's practice of physick.

The only complete edition of Willis's works in English, translated by the poet Samuel Pordage. It contains the translations of all his works except his Affectionum quae dicuntur hystericae (1671). The collection inclu…

GMN 1311 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10280

1685 DIEMERBROECK, Ysbrand van (Isbrand) (1609 – 1674)

Opera omnia, anatomica et medica partim jam antea excusa, sed plurimis locis ab ipso auctore emendata, & aucta, partim nondum edita. Nunc simul collecta, & diligenter recognita, per Timannum de Diemerbroeck ... quorum elenchum sequens pagina indicabit.

Edited by the author's son.

GMN 9575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11762

1686 –1718 LEEUWENHOEK, Antonie van (1632 – 1723)

Ontledingen en ontdekkingen.... 6 vols.

Leeuwenhoek, one of the first and also one of the greatest of the microbiologists, communicated many of his discoveries to the Royal Society in London. This set is a collection in Dutch of many contributions that van …

GMN 265 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1222

1686 MALPIGHI, Marcello (1628 – 1694)

Opera omnia. 2 vols.

Malpighi was the founder of histology. In 1660 he was the first to see the capillary anastomosis between the arteries and the veins, thus contributing to the completion of Harvey’s work on the circulation. Malpighi wa…

GMN 66 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8778

1686 BROWNE, Sir Thomas (1605 – 1682)

Works. Containing I. Enquiries into vulgar and common errors. II. Religio medici: With annotations and observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, urn-burial: Together with the garden of Cyrus. IV. Certain miscellaneous tracts. With alphabetical tables.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 9395 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11578

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

1718 LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720); ASSALTI, Pietro (1680 – 1728)

Jo. Mariae Lancisii archiatri pontificii. Opera quae hactenus prodierunt omnia; dissertationibus nonnullis adhuc dum ineditis locupletata, & ab ipso auctore, recognita atque emendata. Collegit, ac in ordinem digessit Petrus Assaltus. 2 vols.

Lancisi's collected works edited by Pietro Assalti. Lancisi was the first to describe cardiac syphilis; he was also notable as an epidemiologist, with a clear insight into the theory of contagion. He was physician to …

GMN 71 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1266

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

1733 VALLISNERI, Antonio [VALLISNIERI] (1661 – 1730)

Opere fisico-mediche stampate e manoscritte del kavalier Antonio Vallisneri; raccolte da Antonio suo Figliuolo, corredate d'una prefazione in genere sopra tutte, e d'una in particolare sopra il vocabolario della storia naturale. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 9361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11544

1734 –1736 BAILLOU, Guillaume de [BALLONIUS] (1538 – 1616)

Opera medica omnia. 4 vols.

De Baillou, “the first epidemiologist of modern times”, foreshadowed much that was afterwards taught by Sydenham. He first described whooping-cough and is often credit with introducing the term “rheumatism”. Baillou w…

GMN 60 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/965

1740 VALSALVA, Antonio Maria (1666 – 1723)

Opera.

Valsalva described the aortic “sinus of Valsalva”.

GMN 803 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/169

1740 –1753 HOFFMANN, Friedrich (1660 – 1742)

Opera omnia physico-medica. (Supplementum, etc) 9 vols.

Hoffmann of Halle was the most important of the Iatromechanists. He believed an ether-like “vital fluid” to be present in the nervous system and to act upon the muscles, giving them “tonus”.

GMN 72 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1277

1742 BOERHAAVE, Herman (1668 – 1738)

Opera omnia medica.

Boerhaave created of the modern method of clinical teaching. His writings had an enormous influence during his lifetime. Haller, Cullen, Pringle, van Swieten and de Haen were among his pupils. See Lindeboom, Herman Bo…

GMN 73 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1282

1762 REDI, Francesco (1626 – 1697)

Opere. 7 vols.

Redi was a leading physician in Italy. He is best remembered for his experiments discrediting the theory of spontaneous generation and for his pioneer work in the field of parasitology (see No. 2448.1); see also the a…

GMN 65 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1177

1762 MEAD, Richard (1673 – 1754)

The medical works of Richard Mead.

GMN 11523 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13722

1764 HUXHAM, John (1692 – 1768)

Opera physico-medica.

Huxham, a Devonshire man, was a pupil of Boerhaave. His most important contributions to medicine were in connection with fevers and infectious diseases.

GMN 74 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1287

1768 WHYTT, Robert (1714 – 1766)

The works of Robert Whytt, M.D. Late physician to his Majesty.... Published by his son.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 11733 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13934

1775 –1776 WERLHOF, Paul Gottlieb (1699 – 1767)

Opera medica. 3 vols.

Werlhof, a contemporary and friend of Haller, is remembered for his classic description of purpura haemorrhagica (see No. 3052). He was Court physician at Hannover.

GMN 75 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1292

1781 FOTHERGILL, John (1712 – 1780); ELLIOT, John (1747 – 1787)

A complete collection of the medical and philosophical works of John Fothergill. With an account of his life; and occasional notes, by John Elliot.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 11601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13800

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

1789 –1793 RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)

Medical inquiries and observations. 2 vols.

Rush was considered the ablest American clinician of his time. He was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His many writings are distinguished for their classical st…

GMN 80 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1374