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M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
Verhandlungen des XIX. Internationalen Kongresses für Geschichte der Medizin -
Current Problems in History of Medicine. Proceedings of the XIXth International
Congress for the History of Medicine, Basel, 7.-11. September 1964, Comptes
rendus du XIXe congrès international d’histoire de la médecine, Basel - New York,
S. Karger, 1966, 25-32. [RC290]
1948 * WIEGAND, Willy. ‘Marginal Notes by the Printer of the Icones’ in Samuel W.
LAMBERT, Willy WIEGAND, William M. IVINS Jr., Three Vesalian essays to
accompany the Icones anatomicae of 1934, New York, MacMillan, 1952, pp. 25-
42. [HC718]
On de wood-blocks for Vesalius’s Fabrica. See also no. 1039.
1949 WIELAND, Christoph Martin (ed.). ‘Nachrichten von Andreas Vesalius’ in Der
Teutsche Merkur, Weimar, Wieland, 1776, 3: 273-280, 4: 92. [HC719]
According to Schottenloher this is taken from Niceron’s account (see no. 1274).
1950 WIER, Johann. Medicarum observationum rararum liber I [First book on rare
medical observations], Basileae, per Ionnem Oporinum, 1567, 108 pp., [5] ll.
[HC720]
On pp. 96-97 there occurs a long reference to Vesalius. (See Roth, pp. 288, 362, 383.)
1950.80 * WILS, Jos. Le musée de l’université de Louvain incendié par des soldats allemands
le 25 août 1914. Tableaux, aquarelles, portraits, bustes, Louvain, Nova et vetera,
1924.
Mention of a portrait of Vesalius on p. 43, of his bust and statuette on p. 50.
1951 * WINGATE, Peter. The heretics, London, Macmillan, 1975, 220 pp.
Historical novel with Oporinus as one of the central characters. At the end also on Vesalius
and the publication of his Fabrica (p. 215-219).
1951.30 * WINKELMANN, Andreas. Von Achilles bis Zuckerkandl: Eigennamen in der
medizinischen Fachsprache, Bern, Verlag Hans Huber, 2005, pp. 289, ill.
Biography of Vesalius (p. 244-245), remarks on foramen Vesalii and passim on ligamentum
inguinale (p. 245). Initials from the Fabrica 1555 throughout, some are new ones by
Christian Mayrock: see Die Motive der Initialen p. 276-277.
1952 * WINTROBE, M. Maxwell. Blood, pure and eloquent. A story of discovery, of
people, and of ideas, New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1980, 771 pp.
Passim on Vesalius’s discovery that no channel exists between the stomach and the spleen
(p. 98 n.) and his basic work for the new physiological concept of blood circulation (p. 574).
1953 * WITTE, A. de. ‘Cornelis de Baersdorp, lijfarts van Keizer Karel. Korrespondentie
1548-1561' [Cornelis van Baersdorp, court-physician of emperor Charles V. Letters
from 1548 to 1561] in Scientiarum Historia, Antwerp, 1959, 1: 177-190. [HC721]
In Dutch. Vesalius was also called at the sickbed of Willem van Maele, together with
Caballus and de Baersdorp. Correspondence with 16 letters about the health of Emperor
Charles V.
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