Ramazzini, Bernardino (1633-1714)

Appendix Anonymi cujusdam ad medicum judicium ab anonymo Professore conscripta pro Tractatu Homoboni Pisonis in sanguinis circulationem. Author's holograph MS. This MS. contains a violent attack on the work published by Homobonus Piso [ -1748] in 1690 on the circulation of the blood, which was strongly antagonistic to Harvey. Ramazzini accuses Piso of various errors, and defends the importance and value of Harvey's researches: though he does give the credit for the original discovery of the circulation, not to the Englishman, but to his compatriot Matthaeus Realdus Columbus [1516?-1559].

c. 1691

1 volume 4 ll. 4to. 221/2 × 16 cm. Unbound. Margins frayed.

Purchased 1932.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).