by William Harvey in his works. Robert Burton wrote of Josephus Struthius in The Anatomy of Melancholy: "Josephus Struthius, that Polonian, in the fifth book, _cap. 17._ of his Doctrine of Pulses, holds that [...] passions of the mind may be discovered by the pulse." In his book he introduced a set of rules about pulse to be remembered using the fingers as illustrated. Each finger had three degrees of intensity the thumb was for amplitude, the index for duration of systolic pulse, the middle finger for the frequency of the pulse, the fourth for pulse wave velocity, and the little finger for the tension of the pulse. Works As author Ad medicum... D. Cyprianum de Łowicz, de medicae artis excellentia, carmen elegiacum. Kraków: M. Szarffenberg, 1529. Ad Joannem Latalscium... elegia, wyd. w: K. Hegendorfin Declamatio gratulatoria, Kraków: drukarnia Wietora 1530. Ad bonae mentis adoloscentes elegiacum carmen paraeneticum i. e. exhortativum ad studium eloquentiae. In K. Hegendorfin, Declamatio gratulatoria. Kraków: drukarnia H. Wietor, 1530. Sanctissimi Patris... Joannis a Lasco... epicedion elegiacis versibus confectum. Kraków: drukarnia M. Szarffenberg, 1531. Sphygmicae artis... libri V. Bazylea: Johannes Oporinus, 1555. Later editions: As Artis sphygmicae... libri quinque, Wenecja, 1573; as Ars sphygmica seu pulsum doctrina..., Bazylea, 1602; partial Polish translation in Wybór tekstów do dziejów kultury Wielkopolski, Poznań, 1962. Opera medica, scil. de ortu et causis metallorum, de medicamentorum spagyrica praeparatione, sclopetarius et antidotarium spagyriticum. Frankfurt nad Odrą, 1591. As translator Lucian. Declamatio quaedam lepidissima, printed with Lucian. Astrologia.... Kraków: M. Szarffenberg, 1531. C. Galenus. Astrologia. Venice: J. Patavinus i V. de Ruffinellis, 1535. C. Galenus. De urinis liber. Venice: J. Patavinus and V. de Ruffinellis, 1535. C. Galenus. Antidotarius. Venice: J. A. de Nicolinis de Sabio, 1536. C. Galenus. De antidotis. Venice: J. A. de Nicolinis de Sabio, 1537, C. Galenus. Librum Hippocratis de fracturis commentariorum libri tres. Venice: B. Zanettus, 1538. As editor C. Galenus. De differentiis morborum liber. Kraków: H. Wietor, 1537. Translated from Greek to Latin by G. Copus. See also Michał Boym References External links Biography on the website of Polish Cardiological Society (in Polish) Short biography (in German) 1510 births 1560s deaths Physicians from Poznań 16th-century Polish physicians