Facets

1884

#426

Observations on the relation of the principal fissures and convolutions of the cerebrum to the outer surface of the scalp.

Reid’s base line – the anthropometric base line on the skull.

1884

#1111

Ueber den lymphatischenApparat des Pharynx.

“Waldeyer’s tonsillar ring”, the lymphoid ring of the nasopharynx.

1884 –1889

#784

Das Venensystem des menschlichen Körpers. 2 pts. and atlas.

Like Braune’s other anatomical works, this is notable for its excellent illustrations.

1886

#427

Plastische Anatomie des menschlichen Körpers.

“Illustrated with lithographs from hand-drawings, photographs from the nude, ethnic studies of facial features…The text…is of unusual historic interest, and includes special chapters on the anatomy of the infant, huma…

1886

#10207

Catalogue of anatomical models, charts and osteological preparations. Auzoux's papier mache anatomical models, Bocksteger models painted in natural colors, human skeletons.

One of the better illustrated American trade catalogues of the period describing available anatomical models, charts, skeletons for use in teaching. Reprinted, along with several other catalogues relating to instrumen…

1887

#1018

D’une disposition à sphincter spéciale de l’ouverture du canal cholédoque.

“Sphincter of Oddi” of the bile duct, already known to Glisson in 1654. Reprinted as a pamphlet, Perugia, 1887.

1887

#14019

The topographical anatomy of the child.

The first part of this work concerns cross-sectional anatomy; the second part systematically discusses the differences between anatomy in children and adults of different parts of the body.

1889 –1892

#428

Traité d’anatomie humaine. 3 vols.

7th edition, 1921-23.

1891

#1018.1

Quelques points de l’anatomie et de la chirurgie des voies biliaires.

“Hartmann’s pouch”, a dilatation of the neck of the gall-bladder.

1891 –1892

#10587

Regional anatomy in its relation to medicine and surgery. 2 vols.

Includes 97 beautiful chromolithographed plates dissected, photographed, and colored from nature by McClellan. Digital facsimile of the 2nd edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1892 –1895

#429

Dissections illustrated.

“Brodie’s ligament”, the transverse humoral ligament, described.

1892

#12786

The collected papers of Sir W. Bowman. Edited by J. Burdon-Sanderson and J. W. Hulke. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1893

#431

Atlas of head sections. Fifty-three engraved copperplates of frozen sections of the head, and fifty-three key plates with descriptive texts.

Intended to supplement and illustrate Macewen’s neurosurgical textbook published the same year (No. 4872). Includes coronal, sagittal and horizontal sections with commentary on each.

1893 –1903

#10367

Descriptive catalogue of the anatomical and pathological specimens in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 3 Vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Charles W. Cathcart; Vol. 3 by Theodore Shennan. Vol. 1.- The skeleton and organs of motion.

Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1895 –1903

#430

Handatlas der Anatomie des Menschen. 3 vols.

16th edition in English, 1967.

1895

#432

Die anatomische Nomenclatur.

His was largely responsible for the Basle Nomina Anatomica, the first attempt to produce a standard anatomical nomenclature. English translation by L.F. Barker, 1907.

1896 –1934

#433

Handbuch der Anatomie des Menschen. 32 parts.

An important collective work.

1897

#1021

Zur Frage über den Bau des Darmkanals.

The “cells of Kultschitzky” in the epithelium of the intestine, between the cells which line the gland of Lieberkühn.

1898 –1903

#7450

The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. Edited by Professor Michael Foster... and by Professor E. Ray Lankester. 5 vols.

Presents virtually all of Huxley's scientific papers arranged in chronological order, as well as reports of his Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourses. The final supplemental volume contains the remainder of Huxl…

1899

#1023

On the topographical anatomy of abdominal viscera in man, especially the gastrointestinal canal.

“Addison’s transpyloric plane”. Addison was Britain’s first Minister of Health (1919-21).

1899

#12268

The penetration of the muscular fibres of the human heart by capillaries, and the existence in that organ of very large capillaries.

Meigs discovered that the capillaries of the heart enter the heart muscle fibers. These became known as "Meigs capillaries." Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1900

#7588

Catalogue of the anatomical and pathological preparations of Dr. William Hunter in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1900

#10588

Anatomy in its relation to art. An exposition of the bones and muscles of the human body with especial reference to their influence upon its actions and external form.

The work was offered for sale by J. B. Lippincott with title pages dated 1901. Digital facsimile of the Lippincott issue from Google Books at this link.

1901 –1905

#13226

Topographischer Atlas der medizinisch-chirurgischen Diagnostik. Topographic Atlas medico-surgical diagnosis. Atlas Topographique de diagnostic médico-chirurgical. 5 parts.

Contains 30 chromolithographed plates of cross-sectional anatomy made from frozen sections, with accompanying uncolored outline plates and text, published in German, English and French. Digital facsimile from biusante…

1904 –1907

#9991

Atlas der descriptiven Anatomie des Menschen. 3 vols.

I. Abt. Knochen, Bänder, Gelenke und Muskeln. II. Abt. Die Eingeweide der Menschen einschliesslich des Herzens. III. Abt. Die Gefässlehre, die Nervenlehre und die Lehre von den Sinnesorganen der Menschen. Translated i…

1905 –1906

#10599

The Edinburgh stereoscopic atlas of Anatomy. Edited by David Waterston. 5 vols.

The first large scale application of stereoscopic photography to anatomy. The 5 parts each contain 50 stereo cards on which are pasted original stereo photographs and corresponding printed descriptive text. Digital fa…

1906

#434

Lehrbuch der systematischen Anatomie des Menschen.

1906

#14351

A study of the structural unit of the liver.

Mall defined the liver's structural unit as a tissue block centered on a portal vein, rather than the classic hepatic lobule centered on a central vein. He proposed that the structural unit of the liver is defined by …

1910

#7474

Opera philosophica. Edited by Vilhelm Maar. 2 vols.

Steno's collected works, presented in the original Latin with an introduction in English. Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link.

1911

#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.

1911

#7743

Atlas d'anatomie topographique. 7 parts in 12.

With J.-P. Bouchon and R. Doyen. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1911

#12262

On the muscular architecture of the ventricles of the human heart.

1913 –1914

#435

Die Anatomie des Menschen. 3 pts.

1919 –1922

#10206

American Frohse anatomical charts. Edited, revised and augmented by Max Brödel. With: A key to the Frohse anatomical charts.

10 wall charts, each 42 x 64 inches, comprising a total of 76 colored illustrations life size or larger. Chart 1: Human Skeleton Chart 2: Muscles, front and back Chart 3: Nervous and Circulatory Systems Chart 4: a Sch…

1922 –1931

#7649

Das Leben des Menschen. Eine volkstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. 5 vols.

By developing a new infographics style of illustration in which physiological processes and other technical medical and biological concepts were often depicted as, or compared to machines, Kahn made medical and biolog…

1924

#13680

Plastische Anatomie: Die konstruktive Form des menschlichen Körpers. Mit Bildern von Hermann Sachs.

An anatomy for artists, illustrated by Hermann Sachs.

1924

#14287

The morphology and evolution of the apes and man. With a foreward by Professor G. Elliot Smith.

As far as I able to determine in 2024, Sonntag's book was the first attempt to write a general treatise on what eventually came to be called "human evolutionary anatomy," in the sense of studying the relationship betw…

1927 –1943

#563

Handbuch der mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen. 7 vols. [in 17.]

1928

#9516

Das Arteriensystem der Japaner von Dr. Buntaro Adachi unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Kotondo Hasebe ... mit 539 Abbildungen im Text und auf vier farbigen Tafeln sowie mit etwa 700 Tabellen.

1934

#6622.1

John Keats’s anatomical and physiological note book …edited by Maurice Buxton Forman.

Keats was a pupil and dresser at Guy’s Hospital from 1815-16, and was licensed to practice upon completion of his studies. While struggling to launch his poetic career he was often tempted to practice medicine, but ne…

1935

#10205

Atlas of human anatomy, with explanatory text by Jesse Feiring Williams...colored illustrations by Franz Frohse, Max Brödel and Leon Schlossberg.

Reproduced Frohse's anatomical charts in much reduced form with supplementary charts added by Brödel and Schlossberg of Johns Hopkins.

1937 –1960

#10200

Topographische Anatomie des Menschen. Lehrbuch und Atlas der regionär-stratigraphischen Präparation. 4 vols. in 7. Vol. 1 in 2 pts: Brust un Brustgliedmasse, 1937; Vol. 2 in 2 pts: Bauch, Becken und Beckengliedmasse, 1941; Vol. 3: Der Hals, 1952; Vol. 4 in 2 pts: Topographische und stratigraphischen Anatomie des Kopfes, 1957, 1960.

Pernkopf's anatomy is remarkable for the intricacy of its detailed images and its "regional stratigraphic" approach, i.e. "multiple layers of dissection with an emphasis on fascia shown and reflected, approaching the …

1943

#7347

An atlas of the basal ganglia, brain stem and spinal cord, Based on myelin-stained material.

"Classic atlas of the human brain (excluding the cerebral and cerebellar cortex). Each structure has a blurb with varying amounts of useful historical and factual information. There is also a very useful bibliography …

1945

#9177

Anatomy for artists.

By the famous American social realist artist.

1948

#10204

The Ciba collection of medical illustrations. A compilation of pathological and anatomical paintings prepared by Frank H. Netter, M.D.

This was the first collection of anatomical images by Netter published in book form.

1953 –1990

#10203

Ciba collection of medical illustrations. 8 vols. in 13.

"In all, Netter produced nearly 4,000 illustrations, which have been included in countless publications. In perspective, that number represents an image researched, sketched, and completely painted for every three bus…

1954

#7351

The human brain in sagittal section.

A superb atlas is based on sagittal sections. This was an innovative approach for the time as almost all previous illustration of the adult human brain was typically based on frontal or horizontal sections: “in conseq…

1957

#436

Nomina anatomica Parisiensia (1955) and B.N.A. (1895).

Includes historical sketch of the systems of anatomical nomenclature.

1959

#13256

The human body, what it is and how it works. Text by Mitchell Wilson. Illustrations by Cornelius De Witt. Arthur W. Seligmann, M.D., medical consultant.

A modern classic of medical illustration, and the popularization of medicine. The artist is best known for illustrating children's books.

1961

#7352

The human cerebellum. An atlas of gross topography in serial sections.