Highlights from the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection

Title

Highlights from the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection

Description

This exhibition highlights the collection of Ruth and Lyle Sellers that was acquired in 2015 by Bridwell Library. It includes works in the fields of early medicine and science, natural history, religious ceremony and private devotion, and nineteenth-century English and American literature.

Creator

Bridwell Library Special Collections

Publisher

SMU Libraries

Date

Originally exhibited February 1, 2016 – July 1, 2016

Collection Items

BRC0001
Although trained in the classical tradition of medicine based on the writings of Galen, Vesalius created an entirely new method of understanding human anatomy, based on dissection and direct observation, with the publication of De Humani Corporis…

BRMS 22
Bernardus de Gordino completed the Lilium medicinae after teaching and wanting to gather the essential "flowers" of medical knowledge into a handbook. Comprising ancient and medieval sources as well as important original observations, the work was…

BRC0002
Hippocrates, a physician in Greece during the classical period, is often considered the founder of Western medicine. The corpus of his writing, however, is not all positively attributed to him, but rather to a wider circle of fellow practitioners and…

06801
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle may be considered the first scientist to compile empirical data about the biological world by means of direct observation. His De animalibus includes sections on the history of animals, the first work on animal…

BRC0003
Following Hippocrates, Galen was the most notable physician of antiquity. He studied medicine in Pergamum as well as in Smyrna, Corinth, and Alexandria. An enormously influential author into the Middle Ages, Galen's writings were considered…

BRA0853
Dioscorides' De materia medica was the most authoritative and influential botanical and pharmacological text prior to the work of the eighteenth-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. The Euporista, a compilation of simple remedies, appears here in…

06806
Known in Europe as Mesue, Yuhanna Ibn Masawayh was the chief physician at the ninth-century medical school in Baghdad and wrote prolifically in Syriac and Arabic. Best known for his expertise in ophthalmology, gynecology, and anatomy, his were among…

06810
The Persian Mohammed al-Razi (Rhasis) was considered one of the great early physicians of the Islamic world, and he had widespread influence upon late medieval European medicine as well. This ninth volume of the set of ten medical textbooks he…

06802
'Abd al-Malik ibn Abi al-'Alā Ibn Zuhr was a native of Seville and a highly regarded physician in Islamic Spain. The Teisir, his most famous work, describes preparations for medicines and diets, provides insightful clinical descriptions of many…

06803
Originally assembled at the medical school in Salerno, the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum was a popular late-medieval medical compilation with accompanying commentary. The text is often mistakenly ascribed to Arnoldus de Villa Nova because of his…

06800
This treatise concerning permissible marriages was published by Augsburg's first printer, Gther Zainer. The author of this text, the Bolognese canon lawyer Johannes Andreae, explained that marriages along direct blood lines ("consanguinity") or as…

BRA0879
This comprehensive encyclopedia of Renaissance learning includes discussions of arithmetic, geometry, astrology, physiology, medicine, economics, politics, moral philosophy, poetry, music, rhetoric, dialectic, and grammar.

BRA0847
Reisch's illustrated encyclopedia compiles information from various branches of medieval knowledge: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and philosophy as well as the natural and human sciences. Compiled by the Prior of the…

BRC0004
1584 third edition of the author's collected works including his famous, De contagione et contagiosis morbis et curatione, and his poem on syphillis, Syphilis, sive morbus gallicus.

BRC0005
Mattioli wrote on various medical topics, including syphilis, the practice of medicine, and therapeutic practices, but his most well-known work was this commentary on Dioscorides's De materia medica. As a medical practitioner, Mattioli was extremely…

BRC0006
Juan de Valverde was a student of Realdo Columbo, a professor of anatomy and surgeon at the University of Padua who studied under Vesalius. Valverde became the most important anatomy specialist in Spain in the late sixteenth century and wrote…

BRC0007

BRC0008
Aldrovandi studied in Bologna, Padua, Rome, and Pisa where his interests included antiquities and botany. Author of several works on medicine and natural philosophy, he is most well known for his thirteen-volume illustrated work on natural history.…

BRC0009
Aldrovandi studied in Bologna, Padua, Rome, and Pisa where his interests included antiquities and botany. Author of several works on medicine and natural philosophy, he is most well known for his thirteen-volume illustrated work on natural history.…

BRC0010
Aldrovandi studied in Bologna, Padua, Rome, and Pisa where his interests included antiquities and botany. Author of several works on medicine and natural philosophy, he is most well known for his thirteen-volume illustrated work on natural history.…

BRC0011
Nieremberg taught humanities, natural history, and scripture at the Colegio Imperial in Madrid. Additionally, he authored about eighty separate works, mostly about religion and philosophy. His Historia naturae, which focuses largely on the natural…

BRC0012
Although harshly criticized by the medical establishment for providing access to remedies in the vernacular, Culpeper's guide to pharmaceuticals and their herbal sources became extremely popular. The first part is devoted to medicinal herbs and how…

BRA0854
Bewick was one of the most skilled and popular English illustrators of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Quadrupeds, a text compiled by the naturalist Ralph Beilby, is an early example of Bewick's artistry with the engraved…

BRA0838A
Audubon's masterpiece, the famous double-elephant folio Birds of America, comprised 435 hand-colored lithographs published between 1827 and 1838. The smaller octavo format Birds of America, subsequently issued in seven volumes, contains the original…

BRA0838E
Audubon's masterpiece, the famous double-elephant folio Birds of America, comprised 435 hand-colored lithographs published between 1827 and 1838. The smaller octavo format Birds of America, subsequently issued in seven volumes, contains the original…
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