Nova exercitatio anatomica, exhibens ductus hepaticos aquosos, & vasa glandularum serosa, nunc primum inventa, æneisque figuris delineata.
Arosia [Västerås]: Eucharius Lauringer, 1653. First edition of “one of the great medical rarities” (Norman), documenting the discovery of the lymphatic system; this is possibly the only copy in private hands. “Inspired by Harvey’s De motu cordis, anatomists in the second half of the seventeenth century were drawn to the..... More
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