232 Prof. K. F. H. Marx's Memoir of the Life and 



was, that the praise bestowed on the anatomical knowledge of 

 the old artists should be limited, but that their accuracy in 

 delineating characteristic representations could not be too 

 much acknowledged. 



In literary history Blumenbach emulated his pattern and 

 example, Albrecht Von Haller, with whom he had become 

 acquainted while a student at Gottingen, by having, at the 

 request of Heyne, sent him to Bern a work* which he had ob- 

 tained at an auction, and which Haller had mentioned in one 

 of his writings that he had not seen.f Afterwards he com- 

 municated to him on several occasions supplements and ad- 

 ditions to the volumes of the Practical Medical Library.^ Of 

 all the bibliographical works of that distinguished man, Blu- 

 menbach prized most highly the Bibliotheca Anatomica.§ He 

 wrote a preface || to Hatter's Tagebuch of medical literature, 

 in which he praises the author's critical powers. \ 



Although the literary portion of medicine is so frequently 

 neglected, yet I doubt not that most medical men are ac- 

 quainted with Blumenbach''s introduction to the Literary His- 

 tory of Medicine.U In tbat work the whole range of me- 

 dicine is delineated to the end of the previous century in suit- 

 able general views, and the task is performed with singular 

 judgment, precision, and brevity. At the jubilee on occasion 

 of the fiftieth anniversary of our university, he brought to- 

 gether the merits of the Gottingen medical professors** in a 

 synopsis which doubtless served not less as an acknowledg- 



* Observationum Anatomicarum Collegia privati Amstelodamensis. Pars 

 altera. Amstel. 17C3. 



+ Haller's answer is dated 28th March 1775. 



J Baldinger's N. Magazin. flir Aertzte, 1700. Vol. ii. p. 33. 



§ Probably no one over read the works of the eminent Gottingen professor 

 so carefully as Blumenbach. He found much in the collection of letters 

 from and to Haller ; and, besides many important notices for the history of 

 medicine, he obtained that oi . piercing the drum of the ear for deafness. 

 (Gott. gel. Anz. 130C. No. 147, p. 1451).) 



|| Baldinger's N. Mag. 1730. Vol. ii. p. 33-39. 



\ Introductio in Historiam Medicinoc Literariam, 1786'. 



** Synopsis systematica scriptorum, quibus iudc ab inauguratione Aca- 

 demise Georgia; Augusta3 usque ad solemnia istius inaugurations scmisrecu- 

 laria disciplinam suam augere ct ornare studuerunt professores Medici Goet- 

 tingenscs, 1/88. 



