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LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654-1720). De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus, opus posthumum in duas partes divisum. Rome: Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1728.
2o (338 x 230 mm). Title printed in red and black. Title with engraved vignette by C. Gregori, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Jakob Frey after Sebastian Conca, 7 engraved plates of the heart and coronary system after Niccol Ricciolini. (Some light marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary vellum (some staining and wear).
FIRST EDITION of a posthumously published work on cardiac pathology--a continuation of Lancisi's study on the movement of the heart and aneurysms, begun in his earlier book On Sudden Death (1707). In this work Lancisi showed that many heart lesions were syphilitic in nature and gave the first clinical description of syphilis of the heart. He noted the frequency of cardiac aneurism and demonstrated the importance of syphilis, asthma, palpitations, violent emotions and excess as causes. Based upon his own experiments, Lancisi also reported that mercury injected into the coronary arteries shows up in the chambers of the heart, which led him to speculate that the injected material escaped through venous channels. Garrison-Morton 2973; Norman 1275; Osler 3152; Wellcome III, p. 441; Willius & Dry, pp. 76-77.
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FIRST EDITION of a posthumously published work on cardiac pathology--a continuation of Lancisi's study on the movement of the heart and aneurysms, begun in his earlier book On Sudden Death (1707). In this work Lancisi showed that many heart lesions were syphilitic in nature and gave the first clinical description of syphilis of the heart. He noted the frequency of cardiac aneurism and demonstrated the importance of syphilis, asthma, palpitations, violent emotions and excess as causes. Based upon his own experiments, Lancisi also reported that mercury injected into the coronary arteries shows up in the chambers of the heart, which led him to speculate that the injected material escaped through venous channels. Garrison-Morton 2973; Norman 1275; Osler 3152; Wellcome III, p. 441; Willius & Dry, pp. 76-77.