Facets

1948 CE

#6992

[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.

Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1991 CE

#11236

A bibliography of Johann Remmelin the anatomist

1943 CE

#8096

A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.

The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…

1990 CE

#11199

A commentary on the medical writings of Rudolf Virchow by L. J. Rather.

An extensively annotated bibliography of all of Virchow's medical writings, but not including his many contributions to anthropology

1911 CE

#7644

A cross-section anatomy, by Albert C. Eycleshymer and Daniel M. Schoemaker. Average position of organs from eleven reconstructions, by Peter Potter. Sections of the female pelvis, by Carroll Smith. Drawings by Tom Jones.

The historical introduction includes a bibliographical history of cross-sectional anatomies from frozen sections. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1944 CE

#356

A history of comparative anatomy: From Aristotle to the eighteenth century.

Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1978.

1928 CE

#2317

A history of pathology.

The first systematic history of the subject in the English language. Revised edition, New York, Dover Publications, 1965.

1961 CE

#2319.1

A short history of clinical pathology.

1870 CE

#442

A sketch of the early history of practical anatomy. The introductory address to the course of lectures on anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy.

Reprinted in 1874 by Lippincott as a separate pamphlet, and in Keen’s Addresses and other papers, Philadelphia, 1905.

2002 CE

#8384

A traffic of dead bodies: Anatomy and embodied social identity in nineteenth century America.

1962 CE

#460

Anatomical eponyms: being a biographical dictionary of those anatomists whose names have become incorporated into anatomical nomenclature, with definitions of the structures to which their names have been attached and references to the works in which they are described. 2nd ed.

1917 CE

#8639

Anatomical names, especially the Basle Nomina Anatomica ("BNA"). By Albert Chauncey Eycleshymer, assisted by Daniel Martin Schoemaker. With biographical sketches by Roy Lee Moodie.

Includes 800 biographical sketches and a massive index covering nearly 400 pages. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1927 CE

#456

Anatomical texts of the earlier Middle Ages: A study in the transmission of culture, with a revised Latin text of Anatomia Cophonis and translations of four texts.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1926 CE

#8362

Anatomies de Mondino dei Luzzi et de Guido de Vigevano. Par Ernest Wickersheimer.

Facsimile of the 1478 edition of Mondino's Anothomia along with the text and 18 plates from Guido de Vigevano's (fl. 14th century) Anathomia. Vigevano's manuscript, completed in 1345, is MS. 569 in the Musée Co…

2015 CE

#7203

Anatomy and anatomists in early modern Spain.

1905 CE

#450

Anatomy in America.

2016 CE

#9872

Anatomy museum: Death and the body displayed.

2016 CE

#11138

Anatomy: An encyclopedic reference to the language of anatomy and neuroanatomy. It provides the fascinating origin of terms and biographies of anatomists/physicians who originated them.

2018 CE

#13105

Andreas Vesalius and the Fabrica in the age of printing: Art, anatomy and printing in the Italian renaissance. Edited by R. F. Canalis and M. Ciavolella.

1964 CE

#12693

Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.

1835 CE

#439

Antiquitates anatomicae rariores, quibus origo, incrementa et status anatomes, apud antiquissimae memoriae gentes, historica fide illustrantur.

Anatomical terms used in antiquity, representing to a certain, extent a survey of the literature of ancient medicine available to Hyrtl. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this l…

2014 CE

#8160

Art of Vesalius. Edited by Robrecht Van Hee.

1995 CE

#12843

Attitudes toward dissection in medieval Islam.

1774 CE–1777 CE

#438

Bibliotheca anatomica. 2 vols.

Haller is one of the greatest names in medical bibliography. While pursuing his monumental scientific career he found time to compile bibliographies of botany, anatomy, medicine and surgery which together form the mos…

1995 CE

#11900

Biology takes form: Animal morphology and the German universities 1800-1900.

2017 CE

#10021

Bodies beyond borders: Moving anatomies, 1750–1950. Edited by Kaat Wils, Raf de Bont, and Sokhieng Au.

1987 CE

#461

British anatomy 1525-1800; a bibliography of works published in Britain, America, and on the Continent. 2nd edition.

Full descriptions, frequently annotated, of 901 items.

2009 CE

#9697

Burke & Hare.

This account of the resurrection men, Burke and Hare, is the first comic book version of a history of medicine story of which I am aware.

1857 CE

#8854

Compendio storico della scuola anatomica di Bologna dal Rinascimento delle scienze e delle letters a tutto il secolo XVIII. Con un paragone fra la sua antichità e quella delle scuole di Salerno e di Padova.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1939 CE

#459

Das Anatomenbildnis. Seine Entwicklung im Zusammenhang mit der anatomischen Abbildung.

1879 CE

#443

Das Arabische un Hebräische in der Anatomie.

Hyrtl, professor of anatomy at Prague and Vienna, retired in 1874 and devoted his leisure to the writing of this and his Onomatologia anatomica. Garrison considered Hyrtl, along with Littré, among the greatest …

2009 CE

#9677

De Fasciculus medicinae opnieuv bekeken (Academia Regia Belgica Medicinae-Dissertationes, Series Historica, DSH, 11).

A detailed analysis of all the editions of Ketham's Fasciculus.

1627 CE

#1094

De lactibus sive lacteis venis.

Records the discovery of the lacteal vessels. While performing vivisection on a dog that had recently fed, Aselli noticed a network of vessels in the mesentery and along the peritoneal surface of the intestine. The ve…

1987 CE

#7665

Death, dissection and the destitute: The politics of the corpse in pre-victorian Britain.

1966 CE–1972 CE

#7500

Descriptive catalogue of the pathological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England: A selection of surviving specimens illustrating [John] Hunter's opinions on the nature of diseases, experiments and observations on cases in surgery. 2 vols.

1904 CE

#449

Die Anfänge der Anatomie bei den alten Kulturvölkern.

Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin, Breslau, Heft 9.

2012 CE

#10708

Dissection on display: Cadavers, anatomists and public spectacle.

2009 CE

#7567

Dissection: Photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine 1880-1930.

2006 CE

#6839

Dream Anatomy... Anatomy and the artistic imagination.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Library of Medicine from October 9, 2002 to July 21, 2003. In May 2015 the website built for the exhibition was available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy/.

1984 CE

#461.4

Early history of human anatomy, from antiquity to the beginning of the modern era.

1908 CE

#452

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter, speziell der anatomischen Graphik nach Handschriften des 9. bis 15. Jahrhunderts.

Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin, Leipzig, Heft 4. Reprinted Hildesheim, 1964.

2008 CE

#8308

Embodiments of will: Anatomical and physiological theories of voluntary animal motion from Greek antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C - A.D.1300.

2006 CE

#7423

Encyclopaedia anatomica: Museo la Specola Florence.

Spectacular collection of color photographs of wax models in the Museo la Specola, Florence. Text in English, French and German.

1925 CE

#2316

Entwicklung und Bibliographie der pathologisch-anatomischen Abbildung.

Traces the development of pathological anatomical illustration, and includes a chronological bibliography of all important publications known to Goldschmid containing illustrations of pathological conditions, and an i…

1841 CE

#12685

Études sur André Vésale: Précédées d'une notice historique sur sa vie et ses écrits.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2011 CE

#7005

Fragonard Museum. The écorchés. The anatomical masterworks of Honoré Fragonard by Christophe Degueurce. With an essay by Laure Cadot. Translated from the French by Philip Adds.

The painter and printmaker Fragonard preserved the results of his dissections via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect r…

1903 CE

#448

Geschichte der Anatomie.

2001 CE–2013 CE

#8477

Geschichte der Histopathologie. 2 vols.

Traces development of microscopy in disease research and diagnostics, as applied in surgical, gynecological, and dermatologic pathology in the 19th and 20th centuries.

1903 CE

#2313

Geschichte der pathologischen Anatomie des Menschen. In: Puschmann, T.: Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin, 2, 473-559

1852 CE

#440

Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung.

In this classic work Choulant traced the evolution of anatomical illustration from the early schematic plates up to his own time, including a valuable bibliography. Reprinted, Wiesbaden, 1974. An English translation b…