FALLOPIUS, Gabriel (1523-1562). Opera quae adhuc extant omnia, Frankfurt: Andreas Wechel, 1584, 2°, woodcut illustrations on x6r, 2D6r and 2E1v (title holed in blank area, repaired on verso and at inner margin, also thumb-soiled and tattered, with blind stamp and cancellation stamp on verso, and with ink erasure on verso showing through to recto, accession no. in ink at lower margin of dedication, title and most of first quire detached, 2H2r slightly soiled), contemporary vellum (spine badly torn at head and foot). [Adams F134; Durling 1426; Waller 2937] Provenance: Scoring of text and marginal annotations in Latin in an early hand; Baum (signature on front blank); JCL (Senn Collection)

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FALLOPIUS, Gabriel (1523-1562). Opera quae adhuc extant omnia, Frankfurt: Andreas Wechel, 1584, 2°, woodcut illustrations on x6r, 2D6r and 2E1v (title holed in blank area, repaired on verso and at inner margin, also thumb-soiled and tattered, with blind stamp and cancellation stamp on verso, and with ink erasure on verso showing through to recto, accession no. in ink at lower margin of dedication, title and most of first quire detached, 2H2r slightly soiled), contemporary vellum (spine badly torn at head and foot). [Adams F134; Durling 1426; Waller 2937] Provenance: Scoring of text and marginal annotations in Latin in an early hand; Baum (signature on front blank); JCL (Senn Collection)

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Among Fallopius's contributions to medicine were those dealing with the muscles and kidneys, although his name is most closely associated with the uterine or fallopian tubes which he correctly described as resembling small trumpets. Owing, however, to misinterpretation of his word tuba, some of the descriptive meaning has been lost in English. The first edition of the Opera was published at Venice in 1584, the same year as the present Frankfurt edition.

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