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MAYER, Johann Christoph Andreas. Anatomische-Physiologische Abhandlung vom Gehirn, Rückmark, und Ursprung der Nerven. Berlin and Leipzig: George Jacob Decker, 1779.
4o (245 x 205 mm). Engraved title vignette, 9 engraved folding plates by Glassbach after Hopffer (some dampstaining, plate IX with small tear along platemark). Contemporary half calf (worn). Provenance: Earl Berger (signature on front flyleaf and title-page); Friedrich Hertlein (ownership stamp on front flyleaf); Stadtbücherei Plauen (ink stamp on verso of title-page, verso of plate IX, and verso of last text leaf); ownership signature excised from front flyleaf.
FIRST EDITION of a treatise on the anatomy of the brain by the physician to the King of Prussia. "That the septum pellucidum consists of an inner compact fibrous layer, covered externally by a thin layer of gray matter, was first noticed by Mayer." "A grotesque confusion occurred when Mayer (1779) replaced the term hippocampus by hippopotamus" (Meyer, Historical Aspects of Cerebral Anatomy [1971] p. 21, 97-98); NLM/Blake 294.
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FIRST EDITION of a treatise on the anatomy of the brain by the physician to the King of Prussia. "That the septum pellucidum consists of an inner compact fibrous layer, covered externally by a thin layer of gray matter, was first noticed by Mayer." "A grotesque confusion occurred when Mayer (1779) replaced the term hippocampus by hippopotamus" (Meyer, Historical Aspects of Cerebral Anatomy [1971] p. 21, 97-98); NLM/Blake 294.