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Mascagni's Lymphatice System folio 1787

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Title: Vasorum lymphaticorum corporis humani historia et ichnographia
Author: Mascagni, Paolo
Description: [ii], 138 pp. + 27 copper-engraved plates + 14 engraved outline plates with letter keys. Engraved title-page vignette. (Elephant folio) 22½x16½, period half calf and marbled boards. First Edition.Important work on the lymphatic system with striking, detailed plates of exceptional quality. "The plates show a fine and careful workmanship and a faithful and truly masterful representation of the lymphatics. Plates I, IV, VIII, XXII, had not been published before…" Most of the plates are signed Cyrus Sanctius A. C. ad ipsa corpora delin. Et inc"…"" (Choulant- Frank p. 315.) "This massive atlas contains twenty-seven plates and fourteen outline keys of the human lymphatice system which are masterful in their execution and leave little to be improved upon. They were drawn and engraved by the artist Ciro Santi of Bologna and form a landmark in anatomical illustration. Mascagni made several notable discoveries concerning lymphatics, and this work contains his contribution with reference to the diapedesis of the corpusceles through the wall of the blood vessels in areas of inflammation." (Heirs, 1099) "Mascagni discovered half the lymphatice vessels now known. Using the mercury injection method (which he perfected) and a tubular needle bent at a right angle, he observed, named and described almost all the lymph glands and vessels in the human body, concluding that the lymphatic system originates from all internal and external cavities and surfaces of the body, and that it is related to the absorbing function. He demonstrated the connection between the lymps and serous vessels , and disproved Boerhaave's theory of arterial and venous lymphatics by showing that they did not exist" - Norman, 1450. Garrison-Morton 1104
Heading: Waller 6295."Place Published:
Publisher: Sienna
Date Published: Ex Typographia Pazzani Carli