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M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
1658 SIMPSON, Donald. ‘Wounds of the head: from Vesalius to Cairns’ in Occasional
Papers on Medical History Australia, Reflections on medical history and health in
Australia: third National Conference on Medical History and Health in Australia
1986, Parkville, Victoria, Medical History Unit, University of Melbourne and the
Medical Historical Society, AMA (Victorian Branch), 1987, 3: 61-70, ill. [WL]
1659 * SIMPSON, Ian. Anatomy of humans, London, Studio editions, 1991, 144 pp.
Introduction to Vesalius, and on p. 18 photograph of a drawing (pen and ink) from the
Victoria & Albert Museum, as a draft for two muscle men (7 and 8) in Vesalius’s Fabrica.
Dutch translation De anatomische mens, Lisse, Rebo productions, 1993.
1660 SIMPSON, Laurence. ‘Vesalius - a man of the times’ in L. BRYDER, D.A. DOW
(eds.), New countries and old medicine: proceedings of an international conference
on the history of medicine and health, Auckland, New Zealand, 1994, Auckland,
Pyramid Press, 1995, 408-413. [WL]
1661 * SINGER, Charles Joseph. The Evolution of Anatomy, A Short History of Anatomical
and Physiological Discovery to Harvey, being the substance of the Fitzpatrick
Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London in the years 1923
and 1924, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1925, 209 pp, ill.
See chapters Vesalius, the Reformer of Anatomy (1514-64) (pp. 110-115), Threefold
Character of Vesalius: Artist, Humanist, Naturalist (pp. 115-119), On the Supply of
Anatomical Material in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (pp. 119-122), The Seven
Books of the Fabrica of Vesalius, 1543 (pp. 122-135), Eustachius, Rival of Vesalius,
flourished 1550-74 (pp. 135-140), The Followers of Vesalius, 1550-90 (pp. 140-145), The
Early Comparative Anatomists, 1540-1600 (pp. 145-153) and passim throughout. Also A
Vesalian atlas containing nudes, skeletons and muscle tabulae from the Epitome and
Fabrica, p. 187-205.
Also New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.
1662 * SINGER, Charles Joseph. A short history of medicine, Oxford, Clarendon press,
1928, 368 pp.
About Vesalius on p. 85-92; several remarks else. See also no. 1679 (remake) and no. 1682
(second edition).
1663 * SINGER, Charles Joseph. ‘To Vesalius on the fourth centenary of his De Humani
Corporis Fabrica’ in Journal of Anatomy, London, 1943, 77: 261-265, ill.
[HC363a]
Short biography with comment on the Tabulae sex (1538), the frontispiece, his portrait and
the meaning of the word ‘fabrica’ (compare with Cushing p. 73).
1664 SINGER, Charles Joseph. ‘Vesalius the man’ in British Medical Journal, 1944, 2:
407-409. [HC668]
For a letter to the editor see no. 1525.
1665 SINGER, Charles Joseph. ‘Some Vesalian Problems’ in Bulletin of the History of
Medicine, 1945, 17: 423-438. [HC669]
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