Cruikshank, William.

The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body. The Second Edition – Considerably Enlarged, and Illustrated with Additional Plates.

Special reprint edition of London, G. Nicol, 1790. Birmingham AL, The Classics of Medicine Library, 1991. 18 cm x 23.3 cm. VIII, 214 pages. 5 plates including 2 fold-out anatomical illustrations. Beautifully bound Hardcover with gilt lettering and design on spine with raised bands. Ornate gilt decoration to boards. All edges gilt. Green silken ribbon as bookmarker. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Excellent condition. With protective mylar. Ex-Libris / Bookplate of preowner on front pastedown. Additional bookplate on front endpaper stating that “This is copy number 541 of The Classics of Medicine Library edition”. [The Classics of Medicine Library]

Includes, for example, the following: Of Absorption generally / The Ancients seem to have known something of this Property in Human Bodies / Experiments instituted by the Moderns with a view to demonstrate the Venous Absorption of the Ancients / A More particular History of the Lacteals and Lymphatics / Coats, Irritability, Muscularity, & c. of the Lacteals and Lymphatics / Descriptions of the Situations and Number of the Glands of the Absorbents etc.

William Cumberland Cruikshank (1745 in Edinburgh – 27 June 1800) was a British physician and anatomist. He was the author of The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body, which was first published in 1786.
He went to London in 1771 and became assistant to William Hunter in his anatomical work. In 1797, he was the first to demonstrate that a particular crystallizable substance exists in the urine and is precipitated from it by nitric acid.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1797.

• Keywords: [The Classics of Medicine Library] · 18th Century · Blood · Catalogue Autumn 2020 · Catalogue Nine – Medicine · Catalogue No.9 – Medicine · History of Medicine · Medicine · Medicine – Rare · Physicians · Physiology
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120345AB

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