Observationes anatomicae.

Santorini, Giovanni Domenico (Giandomenico)

Publication Date: 1724

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Venedig: Jo. Baptistam Recurti, 1724, 4º, (12), 250 (recte 252) pp., mit 3 Kupferstichtafeln, feiner Halbledereinband. First edition! A Student of the anatomist Lorenzo Bellini (1643-1704) and Malpighi, Giovanni Domenico Santorini (1681-1737) "was generally acknowledged as the outstanding anatomist of his time, carefully dissecting and delineating many difficult and complex gross features of the human body, such as facial muscles involved in emotional expression, accessory pancreatic ducts, and duodenal papillae. His name has been given to some of these structures, such as the arytenoid cartilages (1724), the risorius muscle, and the plexus pudendalis venosus." His most important work was 'Observationes anatomicae' (1724), a valuable exposition of details of human anatomy" that contains "De musuclis facies," "De aure exterriore," "De cerebro,", "De naso,", "De laryngfe", De iis,", "De abdominae,", "De virorum naturalibus," and De muliewrum partris procreationes datis." Santorini was a popular teacher and a pioneer in teaching obstetrics." Chauncey D. Leake, DSB 12, pp.100-101 The work describes the four major discoveries for which Santorini is known eponymically: Santorini's cartilage, Santorini's vein, Santorini's duct, and Santorini's caruncula. Ear - "He paid special attention to the muscles of the auricle, the superior, the "new muscle proper to the concha" (i.e. the anterior), the posterior, and particularly the intrinsic ones. In describing these, he competed with his contemporaries Valsalva and Albinus. For the first time, and in addition to the intrinsic muscles of the tragus, antitragus and transverse muscles, he depicted two more small muscles for the helix, i.e. the "helicis major" (musculus helicis major [TA]) and the "helicis minor" {musculus helicis minor [TA]). He also described better than his predecessors Mery, Duvemey, and Valsalva the fine details of the incisures of the cartilage of the external auditory canal which bear his name (also Santorini's fissures) even if he was not the first to give a description of them. Santorini verified that muscular fibers occasionally passed over the larger incisure: "Its form is usually variable. Sometimes indeed, it separates itself into two after starting from a single beginning, and it is placed on the split of the same incisure. Sometimes it is arranged like an arch. The direction of the fibers of this muscle is as follows: they head from the anterior part for the outside, and they are inserted in the borders of these parts at both ends of the tendon. The other incisure has external muscular fibers. I think I have sometimes clearly seen it, but as I have not seen it frequently enough, and clearly, I do not dare to present it as something sure." Valsalva attributed the first mention of these incisures to Duvemey." Mudry, Albert: The History of Otology (2015), p.243 "At a time when the European universities were making great strides in anatomical discovery and publication, Santorini was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the greatest anatomists. This work records a number of new anatomical discoveries and corrects many errors of earlier anatomists. Santorini's skill and expertise were so outstanding that his name lives on in such anatomical structures as the accessory pancreatic ducts, risorius muscle, arytenoid cartilages, and duodenal papillae, several of which are described in this book. The text is accompanied by three folding copperplates which beautifully illustrate the musculature of the face, the pelvic musculature and genitalia of a sixteen-year-old girl with a tubal pregnancy, the external muscles of the ear, and detailed anatomy of the male genitalia and larynx." Heirs of Hippocrates 786 "The plates of the first edition are done by Marco Galli, the engraving by _Carlo Orsolini, at least the second plate shows a signature in Latin to this effect. The engraver Orsolini was born in Venice, about 1710, and died . Seller Inventory # 62852

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Title: Observationes anatomicae.

Publication Date: 1724

Edition: 1st Edition