{"id":4482,"date":"2015-10-08T15:53:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T15:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2015-10-13T15:53:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T15:53:27","slug":"notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-hardin-library-october-2015-giovanni-andrea-dalla-croce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2015\/10\/08\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-hardin-library-october-2015-giovanni-andrea-dalla-croce\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | October 2015 | Giovanni Andrea Dalla Croce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Giovanni Andrea Dalla Croce (1509?-1580).\u00a0 <em>Chirugiae&#8230;libri septem<\/em>. Venice: Apud Jordanum Zilettun, 1573. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2015\/10\/croce.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6030\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2015\/10\/croce-300x221.png\" alt=\"picture from Croce book\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not a great deal is known of Croce&#8217;s life.\u00a0 He was born at Venice, and was a member of the College of Surgeons in Venice.\u00a0 In 1560 he was mentioned as being on of the city&#8217;s most successful surgeons.\u00a0 <em>Chirugiae<\/em> is Croce&#8217;s major contribution and is a historic compilation of writings of authorities from Hippocrates to Abulcasis.<\/p>\n<p>Croce&#8217;s wound management recommendations are similar to some used 500 years later.\u00a0 <em>Chirugiae<\/em> contains excellent illustrations.\u00a0 Nearly all the best known, most frequently used surgical instruments are depicted in historical sequence.\u00a0 This book also depicts arrows, spears, and bullets used for warfare, and scenes of a typical 16th century operating room.<\/p>\n<p>You may view this work in the <a title=\"link to Rare Book Room web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/\" >John Martin Rare Book Room, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.<\/a> Make a gift to the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences by <a title=\"link to UI foundation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.givetoiowa.org\/GiveToIowa\/WebObjects\/GiveToIowa.woa\/wa\/goTo?area=libraries\" >donating online or setting up a recurring gift <\/a>with The University of Iowa Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giovanni Andrea Dalla Croce (1509?-1580).&nbsp; Chirugiae&hellip;libri septem. Venice: Apud Jordanum Zilettun, 1573. Not a great deal is known of Croce&rsquo;s life.&nbsp; He was born at Venice, and was a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4525,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions\/4525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}