Author: SCHROEDER VAN DER KOLK, J.L.C.
Title: Waarnemingen over het maaksel van de menschelijke placenta en over haren bloeds-omloop.
Description: Amsterdam, J.C.A. Sulpke, 1851. 4to. W. 6 lith. pls. (of which pls. 3 and 6 with yellow, red and/or blue support col.) ['Lith. v. Meijer & Co. Amst.']. Signed commissioned hlf. black mor. [Binder's ticket on upper paste down 'F.Blom Boekbinder en Linieerder Dordrecht']. (Top and bottom of spine some slight imperf.). [n1, 1 in 2s, 2-14 in 4s, 15 in 2]. (II, 112 pp.). (small tear in lower free endpaper, closed). Offprint from ' Verh. der 1e klasse v.h. Kon.-Nederl. Inst. 3rd series, 4th part, discussing the physiology of the human placenta and its blood circulation. Not in BMN: Lindeboom, DMB, c. 1067-1070: '...appointed professor of medicine at Utrecht as the successor of Bleuland....he showed himself a devoted teacher who endevoured to demonstrate new scientific methods before the students, also with the much neglected microscope'.: NNBW vol. II, c. 700/705: Schroeder van der Kolk was a most inspiring and amiable medical man, responsible for a large number of highly important publications. His most important contribution to public health lay in the reform of lunatic asylums and the treatment of the mentally ill.

Keywords: gynaecology stream reproduction reproductive system child birth Anatomy vroedkunde W32