Edward Jenner]]> Francis Glisson]]> Books]]> Tractatus de Rachitide sive Morbo Puerili (A Work on Rickets or the Disease of Children). In it, he describes what he thought was a completely new disease, but in reality rickets as a disease was already known to the medical fraternity as a result of increased urbanisation and changing infant feeding practices of the 17th century. However, Glisson’s work was important because it revealed that rickets first develops in children aged 4 to 6 months, is not hereditary or contagious, and is caused by the lack of good nutrition.]]> Francis Glisson]]> Books]]> Tractatus de Ventriculo et Intestinis is a work that deals with the stomach and intestine, the peritoneum, omentum, abdominal muscles, skin, hair, and fat. In addition to giving a theory of digestion and fermentation, Glisson also discusses embryogenesis; a process that he studied when he was an assistant to Dr William Harvey. Importantly, Tractatus expands on Glisson’s theory of ‘irritability’ or response to stimuli of all tissues – a topic later made famous by Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), the Swiss anatomist. Much of Glisson’s physiology was philosophical, and toward the end of the book he refers to ‘the sweetness of speculation’.]]> Francis Glisson]]> Books]]> The New Zealand Medical Journal was first printed in Dunedin as a means of communication for "Medical Men in the Colony". It acknowledged New Zealand’s own idiosyncratic advantages and disadvantages that influenced disease, especially in comparison with Australia. Frank Ogston’s article on page 46 details the forensic analysis in the notorious Hall Poisoning Case. Thomas Hall allegedly fatally poisoned his father-in-law and attempted to poison his wife; he was convicted of the latter but escaped the noose in the former, on appeal. The University of Otago Health Sciences Library has perhaps the only complete run of this journal from this, its first volume in September 1887.' Item chosen by Richard German, Health Science Librarian, University of Otago.]]> Frank Ogston]]> Periodicals]]> George Combe]]> Books]]> New Zealand Dental Journal. He is a Life member of the Dental Association. The portrait of Pickerill that graces the cover of Brown's volume was executed by New Zealand artist Lois White (1903-84) in 1956.]]> Harvey Brown]]> Book covers]]> Facial Surgery, much of which was based on his time at Sidcup, as surgeon in charge of the New Zealand section of Queen Mary’s Hospital. It is a valuable record of the early days of post-traumatic facial reconstructive surgery.’ Item chosen by Trish Leishman, Subject Librarian, Health Sciences, University of Otago]]> Henry Percy Pickerill]]> Books]]> J. P. Maygrier]]> Books]]> Jan Swammerdam]]> Books]]> Tractatus is, in fact, a key to the contents. Page numbers in the image highlight where in the book certain experiments are described. For example, page 58 shows a dog with a thermometer on the right to measure the temperature of blood that has passed through its lungs. The image assigned page 20 refers to the experiment of a dog breathing under water with a tube in its trachea. The incongruous drawing at the bottom shows two snails copulating and refers to Swammerdam’s discovery (p.114) that the snail is a hermaphrodite.]]> Jan Swammerdam]]> Books]]> Catoptrum microcosmicum, published in 1619. This scarce Dutch edition of his Pinax Microcosmographicus, printed in 1667, offers engravings of two anatomical figures and their veins, and male and female figures that could well be termed ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’. The drawings done by Remmelin were rendered into engravings by the Augsburg artist Lucas Kilian (1579-1637).]]> Johann Remmelin]]> Books]]> Pinax Microcosmographicus - a flap book.]]> Johann Remmelin]]> Books]]> Pinax Microcosmographicus - a flap book.]]> Johann Remmelin]]> Books]]> Pinax Microcosmographicus - a flap book.]]> Johann Remmelin]]> Books]]> John Hunter]]> Books]]> John Hunter]]> Books]]> John Hunter]]> Books]]> Joseph Priestley]]> Books]]> Laurence Heister]]> Books]]> English Physician, a mixture of herbalism and astrology, was published in 1652. This is the 12th edition of 1809. The book is still in print today.]]> Nicholas Culpeper]]> Books]]> Peter Henry Buck]]> Books]]> Phil A. Silva]]> Reports]]> R.S. Croxson and M.D. Goddard]]> Dissertations]]> Reinier de Graaf]]> Books]]>