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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HESSLER, Franz (1799 – 1890)

1799 – 1890

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1844 CE–1850 CE

#11

Suśrutas. Áyruvédas. Id est medicinae systema a venerabili d'hanvantare demonstratum a Suśruta discipulo compositum. Nunc primum ex Sanksríta in Latinum sermonem vertit, introductionem, annotationes et rerum indicem adjecit Dr. Franciscus Hessler. 3 vols.

SUŚRUTA, (Sushruta) HESSLER, Franz (1799 – 1890)

First translation of the Suśruta Samhitā into Latin, and the first publication of this text in the West. Suśruta is said to have lived in the 6th or 5th centuries, BCE. The principal medical contribution of the ancien…

1852 CE–1855 CE

#7168

Commentarii et annotationes in Suśruta Āyurvedam. 2 vols.

HESSLER, Franz (1799 – 1890)

Hessler, editor and translator of the first edition of Suśruta published in the West (3 vols., 1844-50) followed that edition with two separate volumes of commentary.