Thomas Bartholin's Medical Letters Written by Learned Men or to Learned Men, Centuries I and II, With the Necessary Indexes

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Original title: Thomæ Bartholini Epistolarum medicinalium à doctis vel ad doctos scriptarum, centuria I & II. Cum indicibus necessariis A Latin collection of learned medical correspondence gathered and arranged for print by the Copenhagen professor of anatomy Thomas Bartholin, published at Hafniae (Copenhagen) in 1663 by Matthias Godicchenius at the expense of the bookseller Peter Haubold, in octavo, comprising the first two 'centuries' of letters (a third century followed at Copenhagen in 1667 and a fourth at The Hague in 1740). Each item is a numbered EPISTOLA with a subject rubric in the form 'De …', an addressee-and-destination line, a dated subscription and signature, with lettered figure legends and a closing INDEX RERUM compiled by Christophorus Frisius of Erfurt. The letters exchange anatomical, surgical, chymical and pharmaceutical observations and consultations with physicians across Europe — among them Olof Rudbeck, Jean Riolan, Jean Pecquet, Johann Vesling, Ole Worm, Guy Patin, Michael Lyser, Thomas Reinesius and William Harvey — treating the thoracic duct and chyle receptacle, the lymphatic vessels and the priority quarrel over their discovery, Harveian circulation and the liver's role in sanguification, Wirsung's pancreatic duct, scurvy, angina and bronchotomy, monstrous births, the unicorn's horn identified as a Greenlandic whale's tooth, the glossopetrae of Malta, the Alkahest and Helmontian chymistry, the regulation of apothecaries and unlicensed practitioners, and scriptural, classical and juridical philology such as the water from Christ's side and cruxes in Marcellus Empiricus and the Digest. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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