{"id":355,"date":"2006-03-21T07:04:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T13:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2006\/03\/21\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-14\/"},"modified":"2006-03-21T07:04:05","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T13:04:05","slug":"notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2006\/03\/21\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An Anatomical Work of Uncommon Beauty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bourgery,  Marc Jean (1797-1849). <em>Trait\u00e9 complet de l&#8217;anatomie de l&#8217;homme, comprenant  la m\u00e9decine op\u00e9ratoire.<\/em> 8 vols. Paris, 1831-1854. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2007\/04\/bourgery-front_small.jpg\" alt=\"Bourgery, Marc Jean (1797-1849). Trait\u00e9 complet de l\u2019anatomie de l\u2019homme, comprenant la m\u00e9decine op\u00e9ratoire. 8 vols. Paris, 1831-1854.\" class=\"imgborder\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nPaule Dumaitre in his Histoire de la m\u00e9decine et du livre medical (Paris, 1978) commented that Bourgery&#8217;s work is considered today without question the most  beautiful French work of anatomy published in 19th century.  It is also  without question one of the most beautifully illustrated anatomical and  surgical treatises ever published in any language. The 726 hand-colored  lithographs were executed after drawings by Nicolas Henri Jacob (1781-1871), a  pupil of David. Jacob made his drawings from dissections and other anatomical  preparations, some of which were prepared by Claude Bernard (<a href=\"http:\/\/fm.iowa.uiowa.edu\/fmi\/xsl\/hardin\/heirs\/record_detail.xsl?-db=heirs&amp;-lay=WebLayout&amp;-recid=1998&amp;-find=\">see Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1792 ff.<\/a>).  One of the activities Bernard undertook in 1845, most likely to compensate for  income lost when he resigned as Magendie&#8217;s student assistant, was to prepare  dissections for Jacob. Although he is not recognized as a contributor, drawings  made from some of his preparations appear in this first edition. Bourgery  studied medicine at Paris where he interned  under Laennec and Dupuytren and won gold medals for excellence from the Paris faculty of medicine  and hospital administration. After ten years as health officer at Romilly,  Bourgery returned to Paris  to continue his career in anatomy and surgery. In addition to the present work  he prepared an earlier illustrated anatomy and contributed a number of papers  to the medical journals of his day. Bourgery divided his treatise into four  parts which covered descriptive anatomy, surgical anatomy and techniques,  general anatomy, and embryology and microscopic anatomy. Four volumes of the  set are devoted to surgical anatomy and cover in detail nearly all the major  operations that were performed during the first half of the nineteenth century.  The University of   Iowa Libraries&#8217; copy  lacks Planche 85 in Volume IV (lymphatics of the axilla).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Anatomical Work of Uncommon Beauty Bourgery, Marc Jean (1797-1849). Trait\u00e9 complet de l&#8217;anatomie de l&#8217;homme, comprenant la m\u00e9decine op\u00e9ratoire. 8 vols. Paris, 1831-1854. Paule Dumaitre in his Histoire de la m\u00e9decine et du livre medical (Paris, 1978) commented that Bourgery&#8217;s work is considered today without question the most beautiful French work of anatomy published<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2006\/03\/21\/notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/355"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}