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Vesalius, the China root epistle : (Record no. 516240)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781139207102 (ebook)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9781107026353 (hardback)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency UkCbUP
Language of cataloging eng
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041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text lat
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number RS164
Item number .V48513 2015
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 611
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Vesalius, Andreas,
Dates associated with a name 1514-1564,
Relator term author.
240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title <a href="Epistola, rationem modumque propinandi radicis Chynae decocti.">Epistola, rationem modumque propinandi radicis Chynae decocti.</a>
Language of a work English
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Vesalius, the China root epistle :
Remainder of title a new translation and critical edition /
Statement of responsibility, etc Andreas Vesalius ; edited and translated by Daniel H. Garrison ; with added illustrations from the 1543 and 1555 De humani corporis fabrica.
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Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture (R) Cambridge :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer (R) Cambridge University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2015.
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Extent 1 online resource (xxvii, 263 pages) :
Other physical details digital, PDF file(s).
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Content type code (R) txt
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Media type term (R) computer
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General note Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1. Dedicatory preface Franciscus Vesalius -- 2. Author's greeting to Joachim Roelants -- 3. Occasion for writing about the China root -- 4. With what success many have used the China -- 5. Description of the China root -- 6. Method of preparing the China decoction -- 7. Quantity of the first China decoction to be delivered, and the time to give it -- 8. How a sweat should be induced -- 9. What drink is useful -- 10. Sleep and wakefulness -- 11. Movement and rest -- 12. Concern about bodily wastes -- 13. What affects of the mind are applicable -- 14. Sexual activity -- 15. How long the first decoction should be used -- 16. A method of taking and preparing a second decoction -- 17. A way of administering sparta parilla -- 18. Native and familiar drugs should be put to use rather than exotics -- 19. Decoction of chamaedrys -- 20. No small results can be expected from genuine rhapontic -- 21. Hapless people who gratify themselves by publishing something -- 22. Occasion for the letter of Sylvius in which it was declared that nothing written by Galen is completely in error -- 23. Occasion for the opinion, here to be recorded, of the letter in which Vesalius replied to Sylvius -- 24. Galen did not dissect humans, but teaches the study of animals instead of man -- 25. A number of conjectures from the bones -- 26. Conclusions drawn about the fat, muscles, and ligaments, whereby it is concluded that Galen did not describe the human fabric -- 27. Several places taken from the series of veins and arteries in which it is inferred that Galen did not dissect humans -- 28. Reasons taken from the nerves by which it is known that humans were not dissected by Galen -- 29. Reasons selected from the contents of the peritoneum -- 30. Some conjectures based upon the parts that are contained in the thorax -- 31. Reasons taken from those contained in the skull -- 32. Some places where Galen openly criticized the Ancients because they had dissected humans and not apes, as he did -- 33. Not everything in his description of the parts was correctly reported and described by Galen -- 34. A number of untrue descriptions in the bones -- 35. Several inaccurate descriptions taken from the account of muscles and ligaments -- 36. Some false descriptions gathered from the account of veins and arteries -- 37. Accepted descriptions in the account of nerves which are not quite true -- 38. Descriptions of the parts that are contained in the peritoneum, which are not entirely true -- 39. Several untrue descriptions gathered from the parts contained in the thorax -- 40. False descriptions among the parts that are surrounded by the skull -- 41. Some places where it is known that Galen was not altogether sound in assigning the functions and uses of the parts -- 42. In his account of the bones -- 43. Several uses and functions not well assigned in Galen's account of the muscles and ligaments -- 44. Places collected from the description of veins, arteries, and nerves where it is known that Galen consistently assigned incorrect uses and actions -- 45. A description of some things that are contained in the peritoneum -- 46. From the description of parts located in the thorax and skull -- 47. Some invalid anatomical proofs of Galen are mentioned -- 48. How useful the annotations of Vesalius have been in Galenic anatomy, and how little they are to be needed hereafter -- 49. Method of administering the water of the China root.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius' China Root Epistle. Ostensibly his appraisal of a fashionable herbal remedy, the China Root Epistle concentrates on Vesalius' skeptical appraisal of traditional Galenic anatomy, which was based on animal rather than human dissections. Along with reflections about his life as a young anatomist, Vesalius argued that the new science of anatomy should devote itself less to rhetorical polemics and more to the craft of direct observation based on human dissection. This volume provides annotations to link the Epistle with Vesalius' earlier and more famous work, On the Fabric of the Human Body, and includes illustrations from the famous woodcuts first used in the 1543 edition of the Fabrica.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Vesalius, Andreas,
Dates associated with a name 1514-1564.
Title of a work De humani corporis fabrica.
600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Galen.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Dubois, Jacques,
Dates associated with a name 1478-1555.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Smilax.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Materia medica, Vegetable.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medicinal plants.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Garrison, Daniel H.,
Relator term editor,
-- translator.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Vesalius, Franciscus,
Dates associated with a name -1555,
Relator term writer of preface.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Vesalius, Andreas,
Dates associated with a name 1514-1564.
Title of a work De humani corporis fabrica.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
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International Standard Book Number 9781107026353
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139207102">https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139207102</a>

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