The Anatomical Section

Date:
C. 1692
Reference:
MS.MSL.3/1
Part of:
Lectures on Anatomy and Surgery
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Description

Folios 1-75 are filled by a treatise headed "Cursus Anatomicus." This has doubtless been compiled from lectures notes on Pitcairne's course with the aid of a textbook, and it takes the form of a systematic treatise, divided into chapters with marginalia, as follows:

Cap. 1. On the Bones in Generall (fo. 1-6);

Cap. 2. De Cerebro et Nervis (fo. 7-12);

Cap. 3. De Organis Sensuum (fo. 13-22);

Cap. 4. Of Mastication and Diglution (fo. 22 verso-25);

Cap. 5. De Ventriculo & Intestinis (fo. 25-27);

Cap. 6. Of the Liver & Spleen, nerves, chyle, &c. Lungs & Heart, including sections on the Circulation of the Blood and De Lympha (fo. 28-35);

Cap. 7. De Partibus Generationis Masculinis (fo. 35 verso-38); [at this point the numbering of the chapters ceases]

Of the Muscles, ending with the word "Finis" (fo. 39-62).

Inserted after fo. 62 are two sheets, pages numbered 39-42, taken from another book of smaller size, headed "Collections Anatomy 1692," comprising a list of anatomical terms in two columns to a page (fo. 63-64).

Folio 65 is blank, and is followed by Order of Desecting & Demonstration of the Circulation (fo. 66-68) and The Manner of Injecting the Vessells with Wax (fo. 69-74: folio 75 is blank).

Publication/Creation

C. 1692

Physical description

Folios 1-75

Finding aids

Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).

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