SANDIFORT, E.- — Thesaurus dissertationum, programmatum, aliorumque opusculorum selectissimorum, ad omnem medicinae ambitum pertinentium.

Leiden, Luchtmans, 1778. 3 vols. 4to. W. 25 fold. engr. pls. Middle of 20th c. half clf. over marbled brds., spine gilt. (XVII, 572; XVII, 575; XVI, 623 pp.). Van der Aa S., p. 27: Hirsch vol. V, pp. 11-12: DMB c. 1718 - 21: Sandifort (1742 - 1814) was professor of anatomy and surgery at Leiden. He edited a medical quarterly for ten years, which entailed a correspondence with many foreign authors and induced him to edit Thesaurus ... 'a work equally giving a good impression of contemporary medicine.': Heirs of Hippocrates, 658: 'Sandifort directed his efforts to the development and perfection of the anatomy of disease and is sometimes called the father of pathological iconography.': These volumes include a.o. D. Cotugno's thesis "De aquaeductibus auris" (G&M 1549; Dobson 49) and his "De ischiade nervosa commentarius"(G&M 1382: 'Cotugno was the first to describe the fluid surrounding the spinal cord...'): Hirsch's "Pars quinti nervorum encephali disquisitio anatomica"(G&M, 1251, Dobson 74 both only refer to Ludwig, C.F. "Scriptores", 179, and not to this much earlier publication by Sandifort) in which the Gasserian ganglion is coined; Sandifort's "Dissertatio de pelvi"; a letter by S. Tissot to A. von Haller ("Epistola de variolis", "Apoplexia, Hydrope"); Baker's "De catarro & de dysenteria Londinensis epidemicis utrisque an. 1762 libellus" (Comp. G&M, 2096): and Wrisberg's "Programma de respiratione prima..."(Comp Dobson, p. 229): see Choulant, pp. 312 - 313: Waller, 8458: