Alessandro Pascoli - Il Corpo Umano o breve storia dove...

The Human Body or a brief history in which, with a new method, all its organs, and their principal offices, are described in a compendium. To instruct a proper understanding, according to the new system, of theoretical and practical medicine. By Alessandro Pascoli Perugino, Lecturer in philosophy at the university of his homeland, and of anatomy at the Archliceo Romano. In Venice, 1750. Printed by Andrea Poletti. With license from superiors, and privilege. Important eighteenth-century book composed of 255 plates with 20 copper-engraved plates of anatomy, in addition to the frontispiece plate. The work described in a concise manner (in compendio) the organs of the human body and their functions (offices), with the aim of teaching the theory and practice of medicine based on a “new system” linked to iatrophysics and the modern philosophy of the time. Together with it there is, moreover, another work; De Fibra Motrice, & Morbosa Nec non de experimentis, ac Morbis Salivae, Bilis, Sanguinis, Uni obiter de Respiratione, & somno Printed in Rome in 1700 Consisting of a further 52 pages, thus forming a substantial volume of 336 pages.

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