Author: VALLISNERI, A.
Title: Istoria della generazione dell' uomo, e degli animali, se sia da'vermicelli spermatici, o dalle uova; con un trattato nel fine della sterilità, e de' suoi rimedji; con la critica de' superstui, e de' nocivi; con un Discorso Accademico intorno la Connessione di tutte le cose create; e con alcune Lettere, Istorie rare, Osservazione d'Uomini illustri: ...
Description: Venezia, Appresso Gio. Gabbriel Hertz, 1721. 4to. 3 vols. in 1. W. 13 engr. pls. (of which 2 fold.). Original limp paper brds. [intermediate binding.]. (Covers and spine some soiling and a few spots.). (XII, 490 [473 - 490 Index], I (errata), I (blank) pp.). (Some (upper)marginal watersp., also in a few plates, but unimportant; generally in good and clean condition, wide blank margins.). (Uncut.). DSB XIII, 562/5: ' His research on the reproductive systems of man and animals led Vallisnieri to observe tubal motility and the movement of the ends of the fallopilian tubes to the ovaries. But his general conclusions were mostly mistaken:....' : Waller 9792: Blake 468: Capparoni, 88/91: Comp. Heirs of Hippocrates, comp. 706 ['Opere... 1733']: 'Vallisnieri was a pupil of Malpighi ... at Bologna and eventually became professor of practical medecine at Padua. Apart from his medical work, he was most active in entomology and continued the studies of the generation of insects begun by Redi...He also studied mammalian reproduction and correctly concluded that de Graaf's follicles were not true mammalian eggs, as [de] Graaf and others believed...': See Cole, Early theories 172 a.o.: Uncut large paper copy.

Keywords: obstetrics system fallopian Beijer W34