The Endeavour of Jean Fernel
With a List of the Editions of his Writings

Originally published in 1946, this book examines the writing and controversy of Jean Fernel's The Natural Part of Medicine (1542).

Charles Sherrington (Author)

9781107453784, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 January 2015

246 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.37 kg

Originally published in 1946, this book examines the writing and controversy of Jean Fernel's The Natural Part of Medicine, the 1542 publication that attempted to replace Galen's treatise on physiology. Sherrington assesses Fernel's impact on the field of medical writing, and includes multiple plates illustrating early editions of Fernel's treatise and important figures of the day. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in medical history.

List of illustrations
Preface
Part I. The Struggle and its Aims
Part II. The Earliest 'Physiology'
Part III. Success and the Close
Appendix, Notes, Etc.: 1. Biographical notices of Fernel Guillaume Plancy
2. Plancy's 'Life' of Fernel
3. Clichtoveus
4. 'Insidiosae pacis'
5. Jacques Govea
6. Goulin's researches regarding Fernel
7. Shellfish and the moon
8. Valcher's tractates
9. Riolan the Elder's works on Fernel
10. The fatal tourney-wound of Henri II of France
11. Other portraits of Fernel
12. Guy Patin
13. The text of the 'Physiology' of 1554
14. Boerhaave's recommendation of books for medical curriculum
15. Nicolas Leonicenus
16. Thomas Lunacre
17. Passage in the Pathologia, 1567
18. Laurent Joubert's Paradoxes
19. Fracastor on cause of syphilis
List of editions of the writings of Jean Fernel
Chronology of events
Index.

Subject Areas: History of medicine [MBX]