Medical works James Drake (physician)



veins of lungs, illustration drake s anthropologia nova (1707)


a medical treatise called anthropologia nova, or new system of anatomy, published before drake s death in 1707. in had collaboration of william cowper, both text , plates. contractually book legacy of project involving instead clopton havers, author of osteologia nova (1691), had died in 1702; , consequence used plates copied stephan blancard. drake s wife judith edited work , secured dedication henry somerset, 2nd duke of beaufort.


anthropologia nova reached second edition in 1717, , third in 1727. edited william wagstaffe, , popular publication of william cheselden s anatomy. drake had in theory of acquired immunity smallpox, taken clifton wintringham.


drake s orationes tres on medical subjects printed in 1742, preface edward milward. contributed paper concerning influence of respiration on action of heart philosophical transactions.








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