The Dawn of Neurosurgery: Rare Books From the Collection of Eugene S. Flamm - Couverture souple

Eugene S. Flamm

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0983808619 ISBN 13 : 9780983808619

Editeur : The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, 2013

Synopsis

The Dawn of Neurosurgery: Rare Books from the Collection of Eugene S. Flamm is the catalog of a rare book exhibition at the George Peabody Library in Baltimore, Maryland. The catalog highlights the world’s foremost private collection of Renaissance books charting the prehistory of what we now call neurosurgery from the private collection of the collector Dr. Eugene S. Flamm.

Dr. Flamm, a renowned neurosurgeon and avid antiquarian book collector, has spent several decades collecting the essential earliest printed books that chronicle the birth and evolution of his own surgical specialization. His generous loan of these materials to Johns Hopkins University, and his service as guest curator, have made this exhibition possible.

With the advent of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries, faithful reproduction of information and illustrations became possible on a scale previously unimaginable, aiding and augmenting the exchange of scholarly information at an exponential level. The 65 items described in the catalog span several hundred years of medical science, representing, among other things, the first era of scientific peer review.

Highlights of the collection include:

The first dated printing of the Hippocratic oath, which appeared in a 1483 compendium of medical knowledge compiled at the first European medical school in Salerno, Italy.

A first edition of Andreas Vesalius’ groundbreaking study of human anatomy based on dissection, the De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543).

One of the very first illustrations of battlefield surgery, printed in red and black to add equal emphasis to the wounded soldier’s head and flames in the background consuming a besieged city, Feldtbuch der Wundartzney (1526).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0983808619
• ISBN 13: 9780983808619
• Reliure: Paperback
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 94
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible