Pinaeus, Sever

De integitatis & corruptionis virginum notis: de graviditate & partu naturali mulierum

      Leiden: Francis Heger & Hack, 1639. Pineau, Severin (d. 1619). De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis . . . [and 4 other works by Buonaccioli, Platter, Sebitz & Gassendi]. 12mo. [6], 183, 272, [40]pp. 3 engraved plates plus later inserted engraved portrait of Platter, 1 printed table. Lacking engraved title and printed table after p. 134. Leiden: Heger & Hack, 1639. 124 x 72 mm. Old boards, extremely worn, spine lacking, several signatures loose, endpapers detached and chipped. Moderate browning. Former owner's name on front flyleaf. Offered as is. First Collected Edition. See G-M 802. Pineau's De integritatis, originally published in 1597, contains his demonstration of the vestigial foramen ovale in the adult heart, settling the question of the permeability of the septum of the heart. Pineau made it clear that the foramen ovale in the adult heart was an anomaly after Botallo, whose name is associated with the foramen, had originally described it as an anatomical feature in the adult heart generally. Pineau published this study in a frank treatise on virginity and the ways of losing it. Among the other works in this collection is a later version of G-M 1721, Sebitz's De notis virginitatis (1630), on the legal determination of virginity. Tallmadge, "Pierre Gassendi and the Elegans de septo cordis pervio ovservatio," Bull. Hist Med. 7 (1939): 429-57. 29408