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Identifier: medicallibraryhi01medi (find matches)
Title: Medical library and historical journal
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Medical Library Association
Subjects: Medical libraries Medicine
Publisher: Brooklyn
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ca-daver displaying the viscera of the thorax and abdomen surround-ed by the signs of the zodiac. The Spiegel der Artzny of Lau- *The first printed edition of the Anathomia Miindini was a folio of 22leaves, issued in 1478, at Pavia. Other editions quickly followed : in 1482,at Bologna, folio, 19 leaves in two columns of forty-five lines on each page;in 1484, at Padua, quarto of 34 leaves; in 1493, at Leipzig, quarto; in 1494,at Venice, quarto; in 1498, at Venice, folic. From 1500 on, there were atleast eighteen other editions printed, the latest being a duodecimo issued in1580 at Venice. Mundinus himself died in 1325. Tradition assigns theyear 1306 as the date when his first dissection of a human body was made,and 1316 when he wrote his Anatomical Compend for his pupils. LEWIS STEPHEN PILCIIER. rentius Phryesen, Strassbourg^. 1518, also contains two anatom-ical woodcuts, one of the viscera in situ and one of the skeleton.The publication of this book antedates that of da Carpi by three
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Fig. I. Anatomical illustration from the Commentaries of Carpus uponthe Anatomy of Mundinus. A.D. 1521. CAUrilNSI AND Ills COM M liNTAKIl.S UN MIJNDINUS. 7 years, and the execution of tlic plates is far snperior to those of(le Ketham or lliindl. hnl tlicy are still so sketchy and diagram-matic as to prevent them from heinj:^ taken seriously into con-sideration as anatomical illustrations. To Ieren^arius da Carpi,then, heIon«^s the credit of the first real attempt to illustrate bydrawings the texture of the human body and to introduce theminto a printed book, and this Commentary of his upon Mundinushas the rare interest of being the first illustrated work upon anat-omy that v/as published. It will not be forgotten that a fellow countryman of his whoprofessed anatomy at Pavia, Marcantonio della Torre, had i)revi-ously undertaken a work on anatomy wdiich was interrupted byhis death in 1506, and that Leonardo da Vinci had made a seriesof anatomical drawings to illustrate it, but these we

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