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GLISSON, FRANCIS. 1597-1677. Anatomia hepatis. Cui praemittuntur quaedam ad rem anatomicam universe spectantia. London: DuGard for Octavian Pulleyn, 1654. image 1
GLISSON, FRANCIS. 1597-1677. Anatomia hepatis. Cui praemittuntur quaedam ad rem anatomicam universe spectantia. London: DuGard for Octavian Pulleyn, 1654. image 2
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GLISSON, FRANCIS. 1597-1677.
Anatomia hepatis. Cui praemittuntur quaedam ad rem anatomicam universe spectantia. London: DuGard for Octavian Pulleyn, 1654.

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GLISSON, FRANCIS. 1597-1677.

Anatomia hepatis. Cui praemittuntur quaedam ad rem anatomicam universe spectantia. London: DuGard for Octavian Pulleyn, 1654.
8vo (170 x 107 mm). 2 folding engraved plates, engraved illustrations in text. 20th century morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers.
Provenance: Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh (markings on title and plates; Their sale, Sotheby's, July 14, 1969 lot 551).

FIRST EDITION. The first book printed in England to present a detailed account of a single organ based on original research, and the most important book to date on the physiology of the digestive system. Glisson used advanced anatomical methods, such as casts and injection of colored fluids, which enabled him to illustrate the vessels of the liver (portrayed in the two engraved plates). He described the passage of blood from the portal vein to the vena cava, and proved that lymph flows not to the liver, as was then believed, but from it, passing to the recently discovered capsula communis. This fibrous capsule, which Glisson was the first to describe accurately, is now known as "Glisson's capsule." Garrison-Morton-Norman 972; Grolier Medicine 29; Lilly p 67; Norman 911; Russell 322.

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