Specimen of a Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

and it passed from one owner to another. I have been permitted to see and examine it myself in our Ducal Augusta Library.

The second cause, which assigns no small value to our book, is that Hundt, a man adorned with various learning, was, if not the first of all, the first in Germany to restore the incision of the body [dissection], a science known to the ancients, but almost lost through the injury of time. Hence, I am altogether surprised that neither ANDR. OTTOM. GOELICKE, formerly Professor of Medicine in Frankfurt and a diligent investigator of the fates of medicine, in his History of Anatomy, both new and old, published at Halle, 1713, 8vo., nor GOTTL. STOLLE in his Introduction to the History of Medicine, made mention of it by any word.

Yet this task was performed, as he was always accustomed, in an excellently learned and elegant manner by a man born to adorn medicine and all literary matters, but alas! called to the heavenly ones by a completely premature fate, IOH. ZACHARIAS PLATNER, the eternal ornament of the Leipzig Academy. For at hand is his Program on MAGNUS HUNDT, author as it seems of Anatomical Tables, published at Leipzig 1734, 4to. In this, he not only performs a pious duty to our Hundt and renews his excellent merits in Anatomy and his well-conducted life, commending it to posterity (f), but he also deals more fully with the book itself which we are listing.

(f) To the others who have mentioned something regarding the life and writings of our author...