{"id":2478,"date":"2011-07-13T14:37:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T20:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2011-07-13T14:37:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T20:37:31","slug":"notes-from-the-rare-book-room-july-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2011\/07\/13\/notes-from-the-rare-book-room-july-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Rare Book Room, July 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2011\/07\/rbr-newsletter-2011-71.pdf\">Frederick Ruysch<\/a><\/span> (1638-1731).\u00a0 Thesaurus anatomicus.\u00a0 10 pts.\u00a0 1729-1737.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rusch, a Dutch surgeon, anatomist and professor of anatomy at Leiden and Amsterdam, mastered (and probably invented) a method of minute injection of anatomical structures allowing detailed studies.\u00a0 The recipe for the injected substance has been lost, however.\u00a0 He made many anatomical investigations, including those of the vascular plexuses of the heart, and was the first to point out the nourishment of the fetus through the umbilical cord.\u00a0 The ten parts of his Thesaurus Anatomicus\u00a0are especially noteworthy, and the engraved illustrations which accompany them deserve special mention for their whimsical, almost surealistic, quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick Ruysch (1638-1731).\u00a0 Thesaurus anatomicus.\u00a0 10 pts.\u00a0 1729-1737. Rusch, a Dutch surgeon, anatomist and professor of anatomy at Leiden and Amsterdam, mastered (and probably invented) a method of minute injection of anatomical structures allowing detailed studies.\u00a0 The recipe for the injected substance has been lost, however.\u00a0 He made many anatomical investigations, including those of the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2011\/07\/13\/notes-from-the-rare-book-room-july-2011\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Notes from the Rare Book Room, July 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}