Novum Vasorum Corporis Humani Systema Raymond Vieussens Medicine and Medical History

[Early Johns Hopkins Provenance: From the library of Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly (1858â 1943), one of the four founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital.] Contemporary very worn boards. Later leather strap over spine. Binding poor, pages loose. Additional engraved title page showing a dissection scene, title page in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved coat-of-arms plate. [48], 260 p., [1] Early signature on title of Jacobi Mauclerc, M. *Sold with all faults.* "Vieussens was among the first to describe the morbid changes in mitral stenosis, the throbbing pulse in aortic insufficiency, and the first correctly to describe the structure of the left ventricle, the course of the coronary vessels and the valve in the large coronary vein. He was the first to diagnose thoracic aneurysm during the life of the patient. Vieussens included a classic description of the symptoms of aortic regurgitation in his book." Garrison-Morton-Norman 2729; Bedford 225.