Author: HARVEY, WILLIAM.
Title: William Harvey Exercitatio Anatomica De Motu Cordis Et Sanguins In Animalibus. Being a Facsimile of the 1628 Francofurti Edition. Together with The Keynes English Translation of 1928.
Description: Special Limited Facsimile Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. approx. 200; frontispiece; 4 b/w illustrations; patterned endpapers; bookplate; booklet from editors within; original full brown leather, gilt pattern on front board and spine, title lettered in gilt on spine, page edges gilt, silk marker; fine copy. Birmingham; The Classics of Medicine Library / Gryphon Editions; 1978. Facsimile prepared from the Latin original of 1628 and from the English translation of the Nonesuch press edition of 1928. This is the book that The Grolier Club lists as one of the hundred books famous in science: that Garrison and Morton regard as "the most important book in the history of medicine"; the book whose publication "marked the beginning of modern experimental medicine", according to Sir William Osler.

Keywords: Medical History