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with De motu cordis (1639) as it has ‘29’ written on the titlepage, indicating
that it was the 29th item in a bound volume.
On Walaeus see J. Schouten, ‘Johannes Walaeus (1604–1649) and his experiments
on the circulation of the Blood’, Journal of Medicine and Allied Sciences 29
(1974) 259–279; and Walter Pagel ‘Johannes Walaeus – conWrmation and original
experimental ampliWcation of Harvey’s discovery (1641)’, in New Light on William
Harvey (1976), pp. 113–135.
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PROCHASKA, Jiri (1749–1820)
De structura nervorum. Tractatus anatomicus tabulis aeneis
illustratus.
Vienna: apud Rudolphum GraeVer, 1779.
8vo: 4
* A–H8 I6 (–I6), 73 leaves, pp. [8] 137 [1] (errata on last page).
7 engraved plates: the Wrst signed ‘Georg Prochaska. del. G. Wagner.
Sc. 1779’, numbered Tab. I–VII (bound as foldouts in the text).
204 x 124mm. Light browning due to the poor quality of the paper.
Binding: Contemporary sand­grained green cloth, gilt spine lettering,
bookseller’s ticket of J. Burns, Portman Square, London. Slightly worn.
Provenance: Contemporary signature ‘A. Shaw’ on endleaf.
First edition. Wellcome IV, p. 441.
Prochaska’s Wrst work describing his anatomical researches on the nervous
system and containing a number of new observations. His major work
analyzing the function of the nervous system and introducing the concept of
reXex action, for which he is best known, is the Commentatio de funtionibus
systematis nervosi (1784).
Vladislav Kruta, DSB 11: 158–60; Edwin Clarke and Charles Donald O’Malley,
The Human Brain and Spinal Cord (1996) pp. 345–6.
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PROCHASKA, Jiri (1749–1820)
Adnotationum academicarum.
Prague: Apud Wolfgangum Gerle, 1780–84.
3 parts 8vo: A–E8 (E8+1); A–I8 (–I8); p4 A–O8 , 228 leaves, pp. 81
[1blank]; 141 [1 blank]; [8] 223 [1 blank].
17 engraved plates, mostly folding, numbered Tab. I, II (on one plate),
I–IV; I–VII; I–V.
215 x 135mm, untrimmed. Title dustsoiled, light foxing.
Binding: Original yellow paper wrappers. Spine slightly frayed.
First edition. An English translation was published in 1851. Wellcome IV,
p. 441 (Wellcome copy lacking pt. i); Blake p. 364; Garrison–Morton
1386.