Vesaliana

M. BIESBROUCK. VESALIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: UPDATE JANUARY 2013
Set of slides depicting historical moments in medicine from ancient Egypt to the present.
With original oil paintings by Robert A. Thom. Also on Vesalius.
150 * BENDER, George A. Great moments in medicine, Detroit, Northwood Institute
Press, Parke-Davis & Company, 1961, 421 pp., ill.
With oil paintings by Robert A. Thom. See chapter Vesalius and the anatomy of man, p.
84-91.
Several other editions: 1965, 1966.
151 BENDER, George A. Pictorial annals of medicine and pharmacy, [Detroit], Parke-
Davis & Company, Warner-Lambert Co, 1999, 390 pp., ill.
With paintings by Robert A. Thom. See chapter Vesalius and the anatomy of man.
152 BENDINER, E. ‘Andreas Vesalius: man of mystery in life and death’ in Hospital
Practice, 1986, 21 (no. 2): pp. 199, 202-204 and 207. [RC34]
153 BENEDETTI, Alessandro. De re medica opus ... De omnium ... morborum signis,
causis, differentiis, indicationibus et remediis ... lib. XXX. De medici et aegri
officio aphorismorum lib. I. De pestilentiae causis, praeservatione et auxiliorum
materia lib. I. Humani corporis anatome tractata lib. V. Omnia nunc ... recognita
et castigata [a Marco Hoppero] [Work on medicine... about the signs, causes,
diagnoses, symptoms and treatments of all...illnesses...], Basileae, [per H. Petri,
1549], 14 ll., 623 [1] pp. [HC33]
"Prefatory dedication of Marcus Hopper to Vesalius, also refers to illustrations in lieu of
any attempt to copy them or have others made (see p. 577). The 1539 edition by the same
printer has no Vesalian allusions."-H. Cushing.
154 BENINI, Arnaldo, Susan K. BONAR. ‘Historical perspective: Andreas Vesalius
1514-1564' in Spine, 1996, 21 (no.11): 1388-1393, ill. [WL]
Biography. Also on his nomenclature of the spine.
155 * BENJAMIN, John Allison. ‘A discussion of the twenty-first illustration of the fifth
book of De Humani corporis fabrica (1543)’ in Bulletin of the History of
Medicine, 1943, 14 (no. 5): 634-651, [ill.]. [HC451]
On the kidneys.
156 * BENJAMIN, John Allison. ‘A Vesalian Treasure Is Found, Andreas Vesalius’s first
publication’ in University of Rochester Library Bulletin, 1947, 2 (no. 3): 53-55.
About Vesalius’s Paraphrasis in nonum librum Rhazae. [HC452]
157 * BENTON, William (publ.). ‘Vesalius Andreas (1514-1564)’ in Encyclopaedia
Britannica, Chicago et alii, 1973, vol. 22, 1008-1009.
Biography. Also in other editions.
157.70 BERES, Pierre. Catalogue 74. Livres précieux des XVIe & XVIIe siècles, Paris,
Pierre Berès, [1983], 200 pp., ill. [ABE]
With edition of Vesalius.
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