Lorenz Heister - L'anatomie d'Heister, avec des essais de physique sur l'usage des parties du corps humain - 1735

The 1735 edition of Heister's Anatomy is the second French edition, revised, corrected, and considerably expanded, of the famous anatomical treatise by the German physician and surgeon Lorenz Heister — published in Paris by Jacques Vincent, 1735 — (10) ff, 852 pp, (14) ff of plates — full calfskin from the period — large octavo — 13 x 20 cm.

Condition: Upper cap missing, one spine joint split along 4 cm, corners worn, spine with raised bands ornamented with gold fleuron ornaments and the morocco garnet title piece, some foxing and stains, minuscule wormhole in the inner margin of the leaves, speckled edges, ex-libris stamp "Grévin, docteur médecin". Complete. Aside from the faults noted, a sound copy.

This work is illustrated with 14 folding copper-engraved plates (intaglio) depicting different parts of the human body.

The work was first published in Latin in 1717, in Altdorf. Sénac translated the text into French in 1724.

Heister (1683-1758) studied medicine at Giessen, then served as Ruysch's assistant in Amsterdam. After ten years at the University of Altdorf, he held several chairs at the University of Helmstadt (anatomy, surgery, botany, pathology). He is regarded as the founder of scientific surgery in Germany. He is credited with the invention of a trunk orthosis, the first post-mortem appendectomy operation, and the introduction of the term "tracheotomy".