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Vesalius's On the Fabric of the Human Body. Volume V: Book VI, The Heart and Associated Organs; Book VII: The Brain. The final volume of this award-winning translation contains fifteen chapters on the heart and respiratory organs and eighteen chapters on the brain and sense organs, plus a final chapter on vivisection. The volume concludes with a series of indexes which will greatly add to the usefulness of the translation, including Dr. Richardson's translation of Vesalius's original index to the Fabrica, and a set of cumulative indexes to all five volumes of On the Fabric of the Human Body. More »
xx, 413pp. 34 illustrations. 9" x 12".
Cloth, dust-jacket, 80-pound Mohawk Superfine Softwhite Eggshell acid-free paper.17th century treatise on the history of medicine discussing blood transfusion, Chinese medicine, anesthesia. Barchusen, Johann Conrad. 1710. Historia medicinae, in qua, si non omnia, pleraque saltem, medicorum ratiocinia, dogmata, hypotheses, sectae, &c. . . More »
