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The Medical and Franklin Library of Dr. William von Valtier, Part II
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TULP, NICOLAES. 1593-1674.
Observationes medicae. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevier, 1672.

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TULP, NICOLAES. 1593-1674.

Observationes medicae. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevier, 1672.
Allegorical frontispiece, 20 woodcuts in text (19 full-page).
BOUND WITH: WEPFER, JOHANN JAKOB. 1620-1695. Observationes anatomicae ex cadaveribus eorum.... Schaffhausen: A. Riedingius for Onophrius a Waldkirch, 1675. 1 woodcut illustration in text.
8vo (155 x 95 mm). Contemporary vellum, yap edges, ink titles on spine. Some staining to covers, worming to endpapers, browning, dampstaining from upper edges through last leaves of first work, through second work.

Nicolaes Tulp was a Dutch surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam. His inclusion in a painting by Rembrandt ensured his place in history, but Tulp is also remembered for signing the fitness reports for the first Dutch settlers on the island of Manhattan, and for writing, with some doctor and chemist peers, the first pharmacopoeia of Amsterdam, Pharmacopoea Amstelredamensis (1636). His contemporary, Johann Jakob Wepfer, was a Swiss pathologist whose work included here (in its second edition) describes the main blood vessels feeding the brain and identifies cerebral hemorrhage as the cause of apoplexy. First work: Garrison-Morton-Norman 3737; Heirs of Hippocrates 464; Waller 9716. Second work: Garrison-Morton-Norman 2669 (first edition of 1658).

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