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Peyer, Merycologia sive de Ruminatibus, 1685

Peyer, Merycologia sive de Ruminatibus, 1685

Joh. Conradi Peyeri Med. Doct. & Acad. Nat. Cur. Collegae cognomento Pythagorae Merycologia sive de Ruminantibus et Ruminatione Commentarius.. Quo primum exponuntur Ruminantium Species et Differentiae, per omnia animalium genera; deinde organorum ruminationi inservientium admiranda structura detergitur, & iconibus ari incises ante oculos ponitur: deneque de ruminatione ipsa ejusque causis ac utilatate disseritur. Basileae. Apud Joh. Ludovicum Koenig & Joh. Brandmyllerum, 1685. 

 

Original full mottled brown leather over boards, with gold margins on boards, fleurons and red title label on spine. Red speckled page edges. Green ribbon page marker. Leather and corners a bit scuffed, bumped and chipped. Front joint/hinge cracked, but still securely attached by cords. Marbled end papers. Antique library stamp on title page. Decorative capitals. A few leaves unopened. Mild foxing and some mild marginal stains. A bit toned. No tears of folding plates. Binding tight. 

 

Ffep, blank, title, )(^4, A-X^4, Z1-2, I, Z3-4, II, Aa1, III/IV, Aa2, V/VI, Aa3-4, Bb-Rr^4, Ss, blank x 2, rfep 

 

Plate 1 opposite page 181, Plate 2/185, 3/186, IV/187, V/188, VI/189. 

 

Ffep, blank, title, (6), 288, (34), blank x 2, rfep. Six plates (all folding). 

 

“Peyer, Johann Conrad. Born at Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 1653, and died there, 1712. He studied medicine at Bael and Paris—in the latter case under Duverney. He was elected successively to the chairs of rhetoric, logic and physic in the Schaffhausen College, and figures as Pythagoras in the Academia Naturae Curiosorum. He was not the discoverer of Peyer’s patches, which were, however, well described and figured by him in 1677. He first found them in 1673 [and described them in 1677, Cole pg 146], but Severino had already seen them in 1645. Peyer is the author of an important monograph on the compound stomach of Ruminants.” (Cole, pg 483) 

 

“After Grew, Peyer’s monograph (1685) is the most important of the early contributions to our knowledge of this organ (the compound stomach of ruminants).” (Cole, pg 251) 

 

Cole also tells us that Peyer elsewhere dissected and examined the stomach of a salmon and that of the stork. He refuted Gesner, but endorsed Willis. He admired Muralt, and gave one of the best early essays on comparative anatomy published by the Academy. 

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