Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

HISTORY OF RARE PHYSICO-MEDICAL BOOKS
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and has passed from one possessor to another. It was permitted for me myself to see it and examine it in our Ducal Augusta Library.

Another cause, which assigns no small value to our book, is that Hundt, a man adorned with varied learning, was the first in Germany, if not of all, who restored the incision of the body, a science known to the ancients, but almost lost through the injury of time. Hence it is that I wonder entirely that neither ANDREW OTTOMAR GOELICKE, recently Professor of Medicine at Frankfurt and a diligent investigator of medical fates, in his History of Anatomy, both new and ancient, published at Halle, 1713, 8vo., nor GOTTLIEB STOLLE in his Introduction to the History of Medicine, has made mention of it by any word.

Nevertheless, this task was performed, as he was always wont to be, clearly, learnedly, and elegantly, by a man born for the ornament of medicine and all literary matters, but alas! summoned by a premature fate to the heavens: JOHN ZACHARIAS PLATNER, the eternal ornament of the Leipzig Academy. For at his hands is a Program on Magnus Hundt, as it seems, the author of the 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-lived life, and commends it to posterity, (f) but also deals more fully with the book itself which we are indexing.

(f) To the others who have commemorated certain things about the life and writings of our subject, pertain: JO. GEORG. SCHENCK, in Medical Library, p. 389. GEORG. ABRAH. MERCKLIN, in Renovated Lindenius, p. 770. JAC. DOUGLASS in Specimen of Anatomical Bibliography, p. 44. CHRIST. WILH. KESTNER in Lexicon of Medical Scholars, p. 421, etc.