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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Alexander Gordon | Puerperal Fever | September 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
ALEXANDER GORDON (1752-1799). A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever of Aberdeen. First Edition London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson., 1795. In 1780, at the age of 28, with testimonial letters from the Corporation of Surgeons of London, Gordon entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon’s mate and advanced to the rank of surgeon. In 1785 GordonContinue reading “Alexander Gordon | Puerperal Fever | September 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Galen, De ossibus. | August 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
GALENUS (ca. 130-ca. 200). De ossibus. Lyons: Apud Guliel. Rouillium, 1549. Next to Hippocrates, Galen was the most noted physician of antiquity. Born in Pergamon (present day Bergama, Turkey), he received his formal medical education in Smyrna, after which he traveled widely in Asia Minor and to Alexandria to extend his medical knowledge. Galen settled inContinue reading “Galen, De ossibus. | August 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
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”