1698 Myographia Nova by John Browne | Muscles Casserio Anatomy Plates Medicine

1698 Myographia Nova by John Browne | Muscles Casserio Anatomy Plates Medicine

John Browne was a 17^th-century English surgeon who published numerous works on tumors, wounds, and swelling. While serving as a physician to English royals, Browne published a controversial treatise on the muscles of the human body. “Muscles as they appear in Humane Body” was widely distributed throughout the English-speaking world much in part to the dozens of full-page, high-detail engravings throughout.

However, author James Young quickly realized that Browne’s “Muscles” was nearly a word-for-word plagiarism of William Molins’ 1684 anatomy work “Muskotomia” and Giulio Casseri’s “Tabula Anatomicae”. Browne, having been caught, changed the title in subsequent editions to “Myographia Nova” and made adjustments to many of the engravings. Nevertheless, this work is still a remarkable English printing of 17^th-century anatomy.

Item number: #27190

Price: $1,950

BROWNE, John

A compleat treatise of the muscles: as they appear in humane body, and arise in dissection; with diverse anatomical observations not yet discover’d. Illustrated by near fourty copper-plates, accurately delineated and engraven

London: Printed by Tho. Milbourn for the author, 1698.

Details:

• Collation:
  • [8], viii, [20], x, 9-182
    • Wanting p. 19-22, 183-186
  • 39 plates (of 41)
    • Plate VII provided in facsimile; wanting plate XIV
  • References: Heirs of Hippocrates 422; Lowndes 290; Wing B 5126; Wellcome III, 251
  • Provenance: Handwritten – Library of the West London Infirmary, presented by B. Golding M.D., first Director, 1818
    • Benjamin Golding (1793–1863) was a British medical doctor and the founder of the West London Infirmary which later became the Charing Cross Hospital. Golding began medical practice in 1815 at his house in Leicester Place, City of Westminster, which was open particularly to the poor. It was at this time that he conceived the idea of a medical school being integral to a hospital, to ensure the needy were cared for in the present and future.
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~14.5in X 9.75in (37cm x 25cm)

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