1592 BAUHIN, Caspar [BAUHINUS] (1560 – 1624)
Theatrum anatomicum infinitis locis auctum, ad morbos accommodatum....
Includes historical data. Bauhin was professor of anatomy at Basle.
GMN 379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/571
1738 GOELICKE, Andreas Ottomar (1670 – 1744)
Introductio in historiam litterarium anatomes nova aeque ac antiqua, bseu, Conspectus plerorumque, si non omnium, tam veterum quam recentiorum scriptorum, qui a primis artis medicae originibus usque ad praesentia nostra tempora anatomiam operibus suis illustrarunt: Una cum indice nominum rerumque locupletissimo.
GMN 8356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10532
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 –1777 HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777)
Bibliotheca anatomica. 2 vols.
Haller is one of the greatest names in medical bibliography. While pursuing his monumental scientific career he found time to compile bibliographies of botany, anatomy, medicine and surgery which together form the mos…
GMN 438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1094
1835 HYRTL, Josef (1810 – 1894)
Antiquitates anatomicae rariores, quibus origo, incrementa et status anatomes, apud antiquissimae memoriae gentes, historica fide illustrantur.
Anatomical terms used in antiquity, representing to a certain, extent a survey of the literature of ancient medicine available to Hyrtl. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this l…
GMN 439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1095
1840 BURGGRAEVE, Adolphe (1806 – 1902)
Précis de l'histoire de l'anatomie, comprenant l'examen comparatif des ouvrages des principaux anatomistes anciens et modernes.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9304
1841 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564); BURGGRAEVE, Adolphe (1806 – 1902)
Études sur André Vésale: Précédées d'une notice historique sur sa vie et ses écrits.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12685 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14930
1857 MEDICI, Michele (1782 – 1859)
Compendio storico della scuola anatomica di Bologna dal Rinascimento delle scienze e delle letters a tutto il secolo XVIII. Con un paragone fra la sua antichità e quella delle scuole di Salerno e di Padova.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11032
1870 KEEN, William Williams (1837 – 1932)
A sketch of the early history of practical anatomy. The introductory address to the course of lectures on anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy.
Reprinted in 1874 by Lippincott as a separate pamphlet, and in Keen’s Addresses and other papers, Philadelphia, 1905.
GMN 442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1103
1879 HYRTL, Josef (1810 – 1894)
Das Arabische un Hebräische in der Anatomie.
Hyrtl, professor of anatomy at Prague and Vienna, retired in 1874 and devoted his leisure to the writing of this and his Onomatologia anatomica. Garrison considered Hyrtl, along with Littré, among the greatest medical…
GMN 443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1104
1880 HYRTL, Josef (1810 – 1894)
Onomatologia anatomica. Geschichte und Kritik der anatomischen Sprache der Gegenwart, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Barbarismen, Widersinnigkeiten, Tropen und grammatikalischen Fehler.
A classic work on anatomical terminology. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1106
1896 BAILEY, James Blake ( – 1897)
The diary of a resurrectionist 1811-1812, to which are added an account of the resurrection men in London and a short history of the passing of the Anatomy Act.
First-hand account of the activities of the so-called “sack-em-up” men who flourished in England and Scotland until passage in 1832 of the Anatomy Act provided legal means for physicians to obtain cadavers for dissect…
GMN 444.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1108
1898 TÖPLY, Robert Ritter von (1856 – 1947)
Studien zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter.
GMN 447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1113
1903 TÖPLY, Robert Ritter von (1856 – 1947)
Geschichte der Anatomie.
GMN 448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1154
1904 HOPF, Immanuel Ferdinand Ludwig (1838 – 1924)
Die Anfänge der Anatomie bei den alten Kulturvölkern.
Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin, Breslau, Heft 9.
GMN 449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1117
1905 BARDEEN, Charles Russell (1871 – 1935)
Anatomy in America.
GMN 450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1123
1907 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
Tradition und Naturbeobachtung in den Illustrationen medicinischer Handschriften und Frühdrucke vornehmlich des 15. Jahrhunderts.
GMN 451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1153
1908 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter, speziell der anatomischen Graphik nach Handschriften des 9. bis 15. Jahrhunderts.
Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin, Leipzig, Heft 4. Reprinted Hildesheim, 1964.
GMN 452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1155
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
1917 MOODIE, Roy Lee (1880 – 1934); EYCLESHYMER, Albert Chauncey (1867 – 1925); SCHOEMAKER, Daniel Martin (1867 – 1951)
Anatomical names, especially the Basle Nomina Anatomica ("BNA"). By Albert Chauncey Eycleshymer, assisted by Daniel Martin Schoemaker. With biographical sketches by Roy Lee Moodie.
Includes 800 biographical sketches and a massive index covering nearly 400 pages. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8639 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10816
1925 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
The evolution of anatomy. A short history of anatomical and physiological discovery to Harvey.
This invaluable reference book was reprinted under the title A short history of anatomy and physiology from the Greeks to Harvey, Dover, 1957.
GMN 454 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1162
1926 MONDINO DE LUZZI, [MUNDINUS] (1270 – 1326); WICKERSHEIMER, Charles Adolphe Ernest (1880 – 1965); GUIDO DA VIGEVANO, (Guido da Pavia) (1280 – 1349)
Anatomies de Mondino dei Luzzi et de Guido de Vigevano. Par Ernest Wickersheimer.
Facsimile of the 1478 edition of Mondino's Anothomia along with the text and 18 plates from Guido de Vigevano's (fl. 14th century) Anathomia. Vigevano's manuscript, completed in 1345, is MS. 569 in the Musée Condé at …
GMN 8362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10538
1927 CORNER, George Washington (1889 – 1981)
Anatomical texts of the earlier Middle Ages: A study in the transmission of culture, with a revised Latin text of Anatomia Cophonis and translations of four texts.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1168
1935 GRAPOW, Hermann (1885 – 1967)
Ueber die anatomischen kenntnisse der altägyptischen ärzte. Morgenland; Darstellungen aus Geschichte und Kultur des Ostens., Hft. 26.
GMN 8403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10580
1939 WEGNER, Richard Nikolaus (1884 – 1967)
Das Anatomenbildnis. Seine Entwicklung im Zusammenhang mit der anatomischen Abbildung.
GMN 459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1172
1943 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564); CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.
The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…
GMN 8096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10272
1948 ROUGHEAD, William (1870 – 1952); BURKE, William (1792 – 1829); HARE, William
[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.
Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9158
1953 THOMAS, Dylan (1914 – 1953)
The doctor and the devils.
The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenplay that…
GMN 6623.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7687
1957 WOERDEMANN, Martinus Willem (1892 – 1990)
Nomina anatomica Parisiensia (1955) and B.N.A. (1895).
Includes historical sketch of the systems of anatomical nomenclature.
GMN 436 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1068
1962 DOBSON, Jessie (1906 – 1984)
Anatomical eponyms: being a biographical dictionary of those anatomists whose names have become incorporated into anatomical nomenclature, with definitions of the structures to which their names have been attached and references to the works in which they are described. 2nd ed.
GMN 460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1186
1964 O’MALLEY, Charles Donald (1907 – 1970); VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564)
Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.
GMN 12693 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14938
1970 HAMILTON, William James (1903 – 1975); BOYD, J. B.
The human placenta.
An elegantly published and illustrated monograph with extensive historical material.
GMN 11112 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13308
1971 MEYER, Alfred
Historical aspects of cerebral anatomy.
A highly detailed, very technical, but well-documented study.
GMN 1588.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1497
1975 ZERBI, Gabriele (1445 – 1505); BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo (1460 – 1530); LAGUNA DE SEGOVIA, Andrés [LACUNA] (1499 – 1559); DRYANDER, Johann [EICHMANN] (1500 – 1560); CANANO, Giovanni Battista (1515 – 1579); LIND, Levi Robert (1906 – 2008); MASSA, Niccoló (1489 – 1569); BENEDETTI, Alessandro (Alexander Benedictus) (1450 – 1512); ACHILLINI, Alessandro (1463 – 1512)
Studies in pre-Vesalian anatomy. Biography, translation, documents by L. R. Lind.
Includes English translations of texts by Alessandro Achillini, Alessandro Benedetti, Berengario da Carpi, Gabriele Zerbi, Niccolo Massa, Andrés de Laguna, J. Dryander and G. B. Canano.
GMN 461.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1210
1981 PARENNIN, Dominique (1665 – 1741); SAUNDERS, John Bertrand deCusance Morant (1903 – 1991); LEE, Francis Ruey-Shuang (1929 – 2008)
The Manchu anatomy and its historical origin. With annotations and translations by John B. de C. M. Saunders and Francis R. Lee.
The Anatomie Manchoue, a series of graphic illustrations taken from Western anatomical works, with notes in the Manchu-Tungus language. This was compiled under the supervision of Father Parrenin, a French Jesuit worki…
GMN 6958 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9123
1984 PERSAUD, T. Vidhya N.
Early history of human anatomy, from antiquity to the beginning of the modern era.
GMN 461.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1212
1987 RUSSELL, Kenneth Fitzpatrick (1911 – 1987)
British anatomy 1525-1800; a bibliography of works published in Britain, America, and on the Continent. 2nd edition.
Full descriptions, frequently annotated, of 901 items.
GMN 461 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1202
1987 RICHARDSON, Ruth
Death, dissection and the destitute: The politics of the corpse in pre-victorian Britain.
GMN 7665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9837
1988 FLEETWOOD, John (1917 – 2007)
The Irish body snatchers: A history of body snatching in Ireland.
GMN 7671 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9843
1991 ANDRÉ, Jacques
Le vocabulaire latin de l'anatomie.
GMN 8959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11138
1991 RUSSELL, Kenneth Fitzpatrick (1911 – 1987); REMMELIN, Johann (1583 – 1632)
A bibliography of Johann Remmelin the anatomist
GMN 11236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13433
1992 ROBERTS, Kenneth Bryson (1923 – 2013); TOMLINSON, John Derek Williams (1926 – 2010)
The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration.
An essential reinterpretation of the classics in the history of anatomical illustration, with many fine plates.
GMN 6953 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9118
1994 CARLINO, Andrea (1960 – )
La fabbrica del corpo: Libri e dissezione nel Rinascimento.
Translated into English by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi as Books of the body: Anatomical ritual and Renaissance learning, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
GMN 7547 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9719
1995 SAVAGE-SMITH, Emilie (1941 – )
Attitudes toward dissection in medieval Islam.
GMN 12843 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15090
1999 CARLINO, Andrea (1960 – )
Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement No. 19)
Describes bibliographically and illustrates the approximately 60 different surviving fugitive sheets together with essays on "The visual culture of Renaissance anatomy," "Anatomical fugitive sheets: Printing, prints a…
GMN 7546 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9718
2000 KEMP, Martin (1942 – ); WALLACE, Marina
Spectacular bodies: The art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now.
GMN 8680 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10857
2002 SAPPOL, Michael
A traffic of dead bodies: Anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth century America.
GMN 8384 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10561
2002 MCGRATH, Roberta
Seeing her sex: Medical archives and the female body.
"Through a detailed analysis of exterior and interior images of the female body, this book examines the relationship between human reproduction and cultural representation from 1750-1910. With examples drawn from medi…
GMN 10175 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12364
2004 WISE, Sarah
The Italian boy: A tale of murder and body-snatching in 1830s London.
GMN 9996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12185
2004 OLMI, Giuseppe
Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.
Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …
GMN 10560 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12753
