40
Boerhaave Aphorismi.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 39. no. 9, as above.
BOERHAAVE,
Hermann.
Aphorismi de Cognoscendis et Curandis Morbis, in usum Doctrinæ Domesticæ Digesti ab Hermanno Boerhaave. Editio
Sexta.
Edinburgi: Typis
R. Drummond & Soc. & prostant venales apud
G. Hamilton &
J. Balfour ibidem Bibliopolas,
1744.
12mo. 181 leaves.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue II, ii, 511.
For a note on Boerhaave see no. 881. The first edition of this work was published in Leyden in 1709.
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41
Harvei opera.
2. v.
p. 4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 40. no. 39, as above.
HARVEY,
William.
Exercitatio Anatomica De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus. Cui accedunt Exercitationes Duæ Anatomicæ De Circulatione
Sanguinis Ad Joannem Riolanum Filium . . . Auctore Gulielmo Harveo Anglo . . . Hujusque Operum Pars Prima. [-Pars Altera.] Editio Novissima. Indice ornata.
Lugduni Batavorum: Apud
Johannem van Kerckhem,
1737.
First Collected Edition. 2 vol. 4to. Together 330 leaves, plates. The title for vol. II reads:
Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam De Partu: De Membranis ac Humoribus Uteri: et De Conceptione
. . .
Keynes,
A Bibliography of the writings of William Harvey, M.D., no. 46 (with a full description).
In a letter to Thomas Cooper dated from Monticello, August 6, 1810, in commenting on the case of Dempsey v. the Insurers,
Jefferson wrote: “
. . . it has been said that when Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood, there was not a physician of Europe of 40
years of age, who ever assented to it. I fear you will experience Harvey’s fate . . .
”
William Harvey, 1578-1657, English physician, and the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, “the most momentous event in medical history
since Galen’s time.”
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42
Sydenhami opera.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 41. no. 91, as above.
The title-page of Jefferson’s copy was missing, and it has not been ascertained which edition he owned. Several editions in
quarto were issued of which the first was published in Geneva, 1716.
Thomas Sydenham, 1624-1689, physician, “the English Hippocrates.” His works were published in Latin and in English, but it is not certain
in which language they were originally written.
The Sydenham Society was founded in London in 1845 as a commendation of his services to medicine.
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43
Sydenham’s works.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 41. no. 40, as above.
SYDENHAM,
Thomas.
The whole works of that excellent practical physician, Dr. Thomas Sydenham, wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest
and safest way of curing most chronical
