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M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
971 * KEYNES, Geoffrey (Sir). ‘The anatomy of Thomas Geminus. A Notable
Acquisition for the Library’ in Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of
England, 1959, 25: 171-175. [HC565]
About Nicholas Udall (1505-1556) and the very rare English version of the Compendiosa
delineatio of Thomas Geminus (1553), a piracy of the Epitome of Vesalius, 1543.
972 * KEYNES, Geoffrey (Sir). ‘The Epitome of Vesalius. Another notable acquisition
for the Library’ in Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1961, 29:
385-388, ill. [RC147]
973 * [KEYS, Thomas E.], ‘Osler, and the six anatomical tables’ in Bulletin of the
Medical Library Association, 1943, 31 (no. 3): vi, 201-202. [HC221]
Editorial with a letter on a reprint of Vesalius’s Tabulae Anatomicae Sex signed Wm. Osler.
Preceeded by a photograph of Osler and L.F. Barker with the Sterling-Maxwell copy of the
Tabulae.
974 * KILNER, S.D. ‘Vesalius and Gray on anatomy’ in British Medical Journal, 1943, 2:
56. [HC221a]
Correspondence. Short comment on muscle physiology.
975 KING, Lester Snow. The growth of medical thought, Chicago, Chicago University
Press, 1963, 254 pp. [SMT]
Deals with methodology in medicine with the beginnings of modern anatomy and
physiology in Vesalius’s and Harvey’s work.
976 * KING, Lester Snow. ‘Andreas Vesalius’ in IDEM, A history of medicine. Selected
readings, Harmondsworth, Pinguin Books, 1971, pp. 81-87.
With a partial translation of the preface.
977 * KINGSLEY, Charles. ‘Vesalius the anatomist’ in Good Words, 1868, 9: 642-648.
Also in the magazine Good Words for 1868, ed. Norman Macleod. [HC566]
Later edition see no. 979.
978 * KINGSLEY, Charles. ‘Vesalius the anatomist’ in IDEM, Historical lectures and
essays, London - New York, Macmillan, 1880, pp. 337-358. [HUL]
Reprints 1885 and 1889. The same chapter on Vesalius as 977 and 979.
979 * KINGSLEY, Charles. ‘Vesalius the anatomist’ in IDEM, Health and education, New
York, D. Appleton and company, 1874, pp. 385-411. [HC222]
Later edition of no. 977. Also London, MacMillan and Co., 1882.
980 * KIPLE, Kenneth F. The Cambridge world history of human disease, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 1999, 1176 pp.
First published 1993. Short mentions of Vesalius: Galen dissects chiefly the barbary ape on
p. 14, pathology of vena porta p. 652 and thyroid gland p. 750.
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