GUIDO GUIDI (1508-1569). Chirurgia è Graeco in Latinum conversa. Paris: Excudebat Petrus Galterius, 1544 Guidi, a successful Florentine surgeon, was invited to Paris in 1542 to help the French King Francis I apply medical advances of the Italian Renaissance to French medicine. Francis appointed Guidi his personal physician and chair of surgery at the Collège de France.Continue reading “Guido Guidi | October 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
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Sir David Ferrier | The Brain | July 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room
Sir DAVID FERRIER (1843-1928). The functions of the brain. London: 1876 Educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh, Ferrier was chiefly associated with the National Hospital and medical school of King’s College during his long and illustrious career. In addition to being a charter member of the Physiological Society, he joined with John Hughlings Jackson, Sir John Bucknill, andContinue reading “Sir David Ferrier | The Brain | July 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room”