This comprehensive work contains excerpts in English from the writings that represent the great landmarks in the evolution of our knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. Many of these rare contributions are translated here into English for the first time. For this second edition, Edwin Clarke extensively revised the original text and updated the bibliographies and indices in light of recent scholarship.

The Human Brain and Spinal Cord: A Historical Study Illustrated by Writings from Antiquity to the 20th Century (NORMAN NEUROSCIENCES) (Norman Neurosciences, No 2)

Medical Books

Edwin Clarke

Medicine

Norman Publishing

OUT OF PRINT. The first biographical study of important contributors to the field of child neurology, consisting of 124 biographical sketches written by over 100 physicians specializing in neurology, child neurology, pediatrics and obstetrics. Organized chronologically into five chapters, beginning before 1800 and continuing to the present, The Founders of Child Neurology traces the emergence of child neurology as a separate specialty from its roots in pediatrics and neurology. With a definitive historical introduction by the editor, Dr. Stephen Ashwal, and 187 illustrations.

Founders of Child Neurology (Norman neurosciences series)

STEPHEN

M.D. Ashwal

Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, first published in 1543 is, along with William Harvey's classic work from 1628 on the discovery of the circulation of the blood, one of the two most famous books in the history of medicine. A cornerstone of the scientific revolution, published the same year as Copernicus's monumental treatise on the heliocentric universe, De humani corporis fabrica inaugurated the modern study of anatomy, leading to the eventual overturn of the Galenic system that had dominated medical science for fourteen centuries. Illustrated with woodcuts by artists in the school of Titian that have for centuries remained standard icons of medical literature, Vesalius's work is also a classic of sixteenth-century graphic art. When it was originally published in the mid-sixteenth century its Latin text guaranteed its accessibility to an international medical and scientific audience, all of whom had been educated to read and write Latin. Of course, fewer and fewer physicians and scientists read Latin today, and even professional classicists have reported considerable difficulty in interpreting Vesalius's technical Renaissance medical Latin. Although many editions, revisions, adaptations, and facsimiles of this work appeared over the centuries, remarkably it was never before now translated, except for fragments, into a modern language other than Russian (Moscow, 1950-1954). The Richardson and Carman translation supplies a modern, accessible version of this monumental work for the first time. Dr. Richardson and Professor Carman bring a lifetime of experience to the task of translating and presenting Vesalius's painstaking account of the fabric of the human body, having devoted many years to scholarly study of the Latin language (Dr. Richardson) and detailed human anatomy (Professor Carman). Book II: The Ligaments and Muscles, the second of seven books into which Vesalius's encyclopedic work is divided, contains 39 illustrations, including the series of dissected musclemen that remain the most famous anatomical illustrations of all time. As in Book I: The Bones and Cartilages (published in 1998), all of Vesalius's marginal notes have been translated and the historiated initial letters have been reproduced. Book II is made up of 62 chapters and the majority of the chapters end with detailed translator's notes explaining subtleties in the translation. There are also indexes to the muscles, with detailed muscle grids; to the text; to people and places; to words from Greek and Latin; and to the translator's notes. Informative and interpretive prefaces by the translator and anatomist provide details about the translation process of the book and the anatomy described therein. The lasting influences of both Vesalius's many discoveries and the dramatic woodcuts on the history of anatomy and the visual arts cannot be overestimated. The biographer of Picasso, John Richardson, points out that Vesalius's illustration were the direct inspiration for Picasso's famous painting The Dryad (1908) and other works. "How Picasso chanced upon the work of this body snatching anatomist, who saw his plates benefiting painters and sculptors as well as physicians and surgeons, I do not know. The most likely source would have been Apollinaire, a bibliophile with a taste for antiquarian medical books." (A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917. The Painter of Modern Life [New York: Random House, 1996]). As Dr. Richardson states in his preface to Book II, "The reader cannot but admire Vesalius's attention to detail, his astounding memory, his powers of observation and description, and his capacity for sheer hard work." Book II: The Ligaments and Muscles is a truly superb account of the muscles of the human body.

On the Fabric of the Human Body, Book II : The Ligaments & Muscles (Norman Anatomy Series, 2)

Andreas Vesalius

Basic Sciences

Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, first published in 1543, is, along with William Harvey's classic work from 1628 on the discovery of the circulation of the blood, one of the two most famous books in the history of medicine. A cornerstone of the scientific revolution, published the same year as Copernicus's monumental treatise on the heliocentric universe, De humani corporis fabrica inaugurated the modern study of anatomy, leading to the eventual overturn of the Galenic system that had dominated medical science for fourteen centuries. Illustrated with woodcuts by artists in the school of Titian that have for centuries remained standard icons of medical literature, Vesalius's work is also a classic of sixteenth-century graphic art. When it was originally published in the mid-sixteenth century, the Fabrica's Latin text guaranteed its accessibility to an international medical and scientific audience, all of whom had been educated to read and write Latin. Fewer and fewer physicians and scientists read Latin today, however, and even professional classicists have reported considerable difficulty in deciphering Vesalius' technical Renaissance medical Latin. Although many editions, revisions, adaptations, and facsimiles of Vesalius's Fabrica were published over the centuries, before now the work had never been translated, except for fragments, into a modern language other than Russian (Moscow, 1950 1954). The Richardson and Carman translation supplies a modern, accessible version of this monumental work, which will remain a lasting contribution to our knowledge of the history of Renaissance medicine and science. Readers will be impressed by the quality of the detailed anatomy and may be surprised by the grandeur and elegance of Vesalius's literary style as rendered by the translators. The fourth volume in Richardson and Carman's award-winning translation contains the fifth book of Vesalius's Fabrica: Book V, The Organs of Nutrition and Generation. The book contains 19 chapters describing the organs of nutrition and generation, illustrated with 31 woodcuts reproduced at or near original size. The final chapter contains Vesalius's detailed instructions for performing an abdominal dissection. The chapters end with detailed translator s notes explaining subtleties in the translation. There are also indexes to the text, to people and places, to words from Arabic, Greek and Latin, and to the translator' notes. A preface by Dr. Carman provides details about the anatomy described therein. The lasting influences of both Vesalius's many discoveries and the dramatic woodcuts on the history of anatomy and the visual arts cannot be overestimated. As Dr. Richardson stated in his preface to Book II, The reader cannot but admire Vesalius's attention to detail, his astounding memory, his powers of observation and description, and his capacity for sheer hard work. Norman Anatomy Series, No. 4 Norman Landmarks Series, No. 5

On the Fabric of the Human Body, Vol. 4. Book V: The Organs of Nutrition and Generation. Translated by William Frank Richardson in collaboration with John Burd Carman

ANDREAS

Vesalius

This is an encyclopedia of about 1,000 pages related to Sir William Osler (1849-1919), who was the best-known physician in the English-speaking world during the early twentieth century and who is considered bysome "the father of modern medicine." It will contain biographical details pertaining to Osler; reminiscencesof Osler by his contemporaries along with biographical sketches of these contemporaries; summaries andanalyses of Osler's non-technical addresses; and brief accounts of historical figures and other figures whoinfluenced Osler's thinking on various subjects.

Sir William Osler: An Encyclopedia

Charles S. Bryan

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