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Rare Books

 

Most of the books in the Markus Library Rare Book Collection were bequeathed by Alfred Einstein Cohn (1879-1957), emeritus of The Rockefeller Institute, one of the first cardiologists in the U.S., a scholar whose interests encompassed many fields and earned his high regard in the world of culture.

The scope of the collection is broad, encompassing the humanities, medicine, and natural history, including botany, agriculture, and geography.

Dr. Cohn's rare volumes of scientific and medical interest, published in 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, include some of the major works of many of the great names in the history of medical science, often in the first editions: Celsus, Thomas Bartholinus, G. Borelli, Malpighi, Leuwenhoek, Richard Lower, Mead, and many others.

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  • Magendie, François by The Rockefeller University

    Magendie, François

    The Rockefeller University

    Magendie, François. Lectures on the blood; and on the changes which it undergoes during disease, 1839


    Full text

    Subjects: Blood

    Blood Vessels

    Notes: Delivered at the College of France in 1837-8

    Language: English



  • Maglio, Leopoldo by The Rockefeller University

    Maglio, Leopoldo

    The Rockefeller University

    Maglio, Leopoldo. Della morte apparente degli animali non dipendenta da malattia, 1751

    Full text

    Subjects: Death, Apparent – Early works to 1800

    Notes: Attribution to Leopoldo Maglio quoted in Melzi

    Language: Italian

  • Malpighii, Marcelli; Fracassati, Caroli by The Rockefeller University

    Malpighii, Marcelli; Fracassati, Caroli

    The Rockefeller University

    Malpighii, Marcelli; Fracassati, Caroli. Epistolæ anatomicæ virorum clarissimorum Marcelli Malpighii et Caroli Fracassati. Quarum contenta pagina versa exhibet, 1669

    Full text

    Subjects: Human anatomy--Early works to 1800

    Language: Latin

  • Mandl, Louis by The Rockefeller University

    Mandl, Louis

    The Rockefeller University

    Mandl, Louis. Traité pratique du microscope et de son emploi dans l'étude des corps organisés; suivi de Recherches sur l'organisation des animaux infusoires, 1839

    Full text

    Language: French

  • Mangeti, Joh. Jacobi by The Rockefeller University

    Mangeti, Joh. Jacobi

    The Rockefeller University

    Mangeti, Joh. Jacobi. Joh. Jacobi Mangeti Theatrum anatomicum : quô, non tantùm integra totius corporis humani in suas partes, ac minutiores particulas evoluti, & quasi resoluti, fabrici, ex selectioribus, veterum & recentiorum omnium observationibus, retecta sistitur, 1717

    Subjects: Human anatomy – Early works to 1800

    Notes: In two volumes

    Language: Latin

  • Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau by The Rockefeller University

    Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau

    The Rockefeller University

    Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau.

    Subjects: Reproduction

    Human skin color

    Language: French

    Notes: A remarkable work on embryology and genetic

    Summary: A scientist, philosopher, and original thinker, Maupertuis was years ahead of his time in many aspects of biology, particularly embryology and genetics. His arguments against the then-prevailing theory of preformation and for epigenesis were so close to the idea of evolution that he is a true forerunner of Darwin and Mendel.


  • Maynwaring, Everard by The Rockefeller University

    Maynwaring, Everard

    The Rockefeller University

    Maynwaring, Everard. Medicus Absolutus Adespotos. The complete physician, qualified and dignified. The rise and progress of physics, historically, chronologically, and philosophically illustrated, 1668

    Subjects: Medicine – Early works to 1800

    Language: English


  • Mead, Richard by The Rockefeller University

    Mead, Richard

    The Rockefeller University

    Mead, Richard. A mechanical account of poisons in several essays, 1702

    Full text

    Subjects: Poisons – Early works to 1800

    Opium – Early works to 1800

    Language: English

  • Mead, Richard by The Rockefeller University

    Mead, Richard

    The Rockefeller University

    Mead, Richard. Opera medica. I. De imperio solis ac lunae in corpora humana & morbis inde oriundis. II. De variolis & Morbillis liber. III. Rhazis de variolis & morbillis commentarius ex Arabico Latine redditus. IV. Oratio anniversaria Harveiana. V. De nummis quibusdam a smyrnaeis in medicorum honorem percussis, 1746

    Full text

    Subjects: Medicine – Early works to 1800

    Notes: 3 volumes in one

    Language: Latin

  • Mead, Richard by The Rockefeller University

    Mead, Richard

    The Rockefeller University

    Mead, Richard.

    Full text

    Subjects: Medicine - History

    Language: Latin

  • Mead, Richard by The Rockefeller University

    Mead, Richard

    The Rockefeller University

    Mead, Richard. The medical works of Richard Mead, 1762

    Full text

    Subjects: Medicine – Collected Works – 18th century

    Notes: Includes indices and errata

    Language: English


  • Métherie, Jean-Claude de by The Rockefeller University

    Métherie, Jean-Claude de

    The Rockefeller University

    Métherie, Jean-Claude de. Vues physiologiques sur l'organisation animale et végétale, 1780

    Full text

    Subjects: Physiology – Early works to 1800

    Notes: First edition

    Language: French

  • Métherie, Jean-Claude de by The Rockefeller University

    Métherie, Jean-Claude de

    The Rockefeller University

    Métherie, Jean-Claude de. Vues physiologiques sur l'organisation animale et végétale, 1780


    Full text

    Subjects: Physiology – Early works to 1800

    Notes: First edition

    Language: French

  • More, Thomas by The Rockefeller University

    More, Thomas

    The Rockefeller University

    More, Thomas. Utopia, 1851

    Full text

    Subjects: Utopia

    Notes: Translated by Gilbert Burnet

    Language: English

  • Morgagni, Giovanni Battista by The Rockefeller University

    Morgagni, Giovanni Battista

    The Rockefeller University

    Morgagni, Giovanni Battista. De Sedibus, et Causis Morborum per anatomen Indagatis libri quinque. Dissectiones, et Animadversiones, nunc primum editas, complectuntur propemodum innumeras, medicis, chirurgis, anatomicis profuturas, 1761

    Full text

    Subjects: Medicine - Early works to 1800

    Anatomy, Pathology

    Notes: First edition

    Language: Latin

    Summary: De Sedibus is one of the most important books in the history of medicine. Morgagni was a professor of anatomy at Padua for over 56 years and is regarded as "the true founder of pathological anatomy" (Morton). A monumental work that established the organ concept of disease and made pathological anatomy a major medical discipline. In exhaustive detail, Morgagni reports on nearly 700 cases and autopsies. Several conditions are described for the first time including classic descriptions of mitral stenosis, heart block (Adams-Stokes Syndrome), angina pectoris, syphilitic aneurysm, and tuberculosis of the kidney. "Morgagni's contribution to the understanding of disease may well rank with the contributions of Vesalius in anatomy and Harvey in physiology" (Eimas)

  • Mosheim, Johann Lorenz by The Rockefeller University

    Mosheim, Johann Lorenz

    The Rockefeller University

    Mosheim, Johann Lorenz. Neue Nachrichten von dem berühmten spanischen Arzte Michael Serveto, der zu Geneve ist verbrannt worden, 1750

    Subjects: Servetus, Michael

    Notes: Originally published: Helmstedt: C.F. Weygand, 1746

    Language: German

  • Muller, Johannes by The Rockefeller University

    Muller, Johannes

    The Rockefeller University

    Muller, Johannes. Elements of Physiology, 1843

    Full text

    Subjects: Physiology

    Notes: The subjects of the books are: (1) General anatomy, (2) The circulating fluids, (3) Chemical changes in the organic fluids and organized textures, (4) Physiology of the nerves, (5) Of motion (voice and speech), (6) The senses, (7) The mind, (8) Of generation, and (9) Of development.

    Language: English

    Summary: The first textbook of physiology (first published in German in four parts from 1833 to 1840) and a key book in the emergence of the still-dominant monist-materialist model in medicine and psychology. Muller's work began a new era in the study of physiology: he pioneered the use of experimental methods in medicine and introduced the element of psychology into physiological investigatin. He has made the first attempts to explain physiological problems in terms of existing comparative physical and chemical knowledge. [Norman Catalog]

  • Naude, Gabriel by The Rockefeller University

    Naude, Gabriel

    The Rockefeller University

    Naude, Gabriel.

    Subjects: Magic – Early works to 1800

    Notes: Originally published in 1625, with title: Apologie pour tous les grands personnages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnez de magie

    Language: French

  • Newton, Isaac by The Rockefeller University

    Newton, Isaac

    The Rockefeller University

    Newton, Isaac. Opticks: or a treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light, 1730

    Full text

    Subjects: Optics – Early works to 1800

    Notes: The fourth edition, corrected

    Language: English


  • Newton, Isaac by The Rockefeller University

    Newton, Isaac

    The Rockefeller University

    Newton, Isaac. Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel: and the Apocalypse of St. John. In two parts, 1733

    Full text

    Subjects: Bible – Revelation – Criticism, interpretation, etc.

    Language: English

 

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