Brücke, Ernst Wilhelm von (1819-1892)

Physiologische Vorlesungen ... an der Universität Wien, geschrieben von Karl Langer. Paged continuously: illustrated by small marginal pen and pencil diagrams and figures, some coloured. Produced in Vienna.

c. 1870

2 volumes 2 vols. 2082 pp. + 28 ll. 4to. 201/2 x 161/2 cm. Original boards.

Purchased 1910.

The author was an eminent physiologist: he qualified M.D. at Berlin in 1842, and became professor of physiology at Vienna University in 1849. He was later (1879) raised to the nobility both of Austria-Hungary and of Prussia.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).