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GLISSON, Francis (1597-1677). Anatomia Hepatis. Cui preamittuntur quaedam ad rem anatomican universe spectantia. Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge and Elizaeum Weyerstraten, 1665.
12o (132 x 76 mm). Engraved title-page and 2 folding engraved plates. M4 missigned M7. (Title-page with loss along upper margin.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt (rebacked, worn). Provenance: P. Lassus (early signature on title-page); early indistinct ownership signature on engraved title-page.
Third edition. Glisson's anatomy of the liver, first published in London, 1654, was the first book printed in England to present a detailed account of a single organ based upon original research, and the most important book to date on the physiology of the digestive system. Glisson used anatomical methods advanced for his time, such as casts and injection of colored fluids, which enabled him to illustrate the vessels of the liver. He described the passage of the blood from the portal vein to the vena cava, and proved that lymph flows not to the liver (as was then believed), but from it, passing to the recently-discovered capsula communis. This fibrous capsule, which Glisson was the first to describe accurately, is known as "Glisson's capsule." See Garrison-Morton 972; See Norman 911.
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Third edition. Glisson's anatomy of the liver, first published in London, 1654, was the first book printed in England to present a detailed account of a single organ based upon original research, and the most important book to date on the physiology of the digestive system. Glisson used anatomical methods advanced for his time, such as casts and injection of colored fluids, which enabled him to illustrate the vessels of the liver. He described the passage of the blood from the portal vein to the vena cava, and proved that lymph flows not to the liver (as was then believed), but from it, passing to the recently-discovered capsula communis. This fibrous capsule, which Glisson was the first to describe accurately, is known as "Glisson's capsule." See Garrison-Morton 972; See Norman 911.