Justin Croft Antiquarian Books - Rare and Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts

Closely written lecture notes taken by a student in the summer of 1838 attending a course on physiology given by Gottfried Fleischmann at the University of Erlangen. Fleischmann (1777-1850) had come to prominence some years before with the publication of Leichenöffnungen (1815), born out of almost 100 autopsies he carried out in the preceding years; ‘the anatomical side of forensic medicine was enriched by his compendious but good Introduction to the forensic and police investigation of human and animal corpses, 1811, and a valued work on death by strangulation’ (ADB). From 1824, Fleischmann was professor of anatomy and physiology at Erlangen and director of the Anatomical Institute there, but published nothing after 1823, so these notes are particularly valuable.