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Bartholin's Acta Medica, 1673-1680

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Title: Acta Medica & Philosophiae Hafniensia
Author: Bartholinus, Thomas
Description: Vols. I-V, bound together. [16], 316; [20], 376; [16], 174; 216; [8], 341 pp. With 62 engraved plates on 61 sheets (5 of them folding); approx. 60 woodcuts in the text. (4to) 7¼x5¾, modern antique-style calf. First Edition.Remarkable medical periodical produced by Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680), son of Caspar Bartholin, who published an important anatomy in the early 17th century. "In 1673 [Thomas Bartholin] established the first examination in midwifery at Copenhagen, and in the same year he began publication of the first Danish scientific journal, Acta Medica et Philosophica Hafniensa" - DSB. The work is quite wide in its scope, but contains in particular many chapters on teratological subjects (including human and animal monsters, as well as mutations among plants), and includes important essays (e.g. an article from a work by the eminent sinologist Andreas Cleyer entitled De Herba Thee Asiaticorum), chapters on mineralogy, ophthalmology, scurvy, obstetrics, the eyes and teeth of whales, the narwhal, the anatomy of a salamander, drug plants, meteorology, astronomy, etc. The present copy has a very full complement of illustrations; these vary from set to set, the Waller copy, for instance, inscribed by Bartholin, contains only 39 plates. Occasional ink marginalia and underlining, page numbers inked on many plates; ownership signature of Sven Borghe, Lund 1840, to title-page. Waller 712; Wellcome II p.108.
Heading: Place Published: Copenhagen
Publisher: Peter Haubold
Date Published: 1673-[1680]