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![a eae a This most copious work, profusely illustrated by very instructive woodcuts, contains the original text of the following surgeons of the 16th century: 1: Paré (with his portrait and numerous woodcuts), his complete work on surgery, syphilis, small-pox, plague, monsters, with the commentary of Jacques Guillemeau (660 pp.). — See reproduction p. 5. 2: Tagaultius, institutiones chirurgicae quibus Guidonis Cauliaci volumen chirurgicum continentur. Contains figu- res of the famous Vesalian skeletons (Feyfer. p. 61). : Marianus Sanctus: Compendium chirurgicum. : Angelus Bologninus: De cura ulcerum. : Michaelis Angelus Blondus: De partibus ictu sectis citissime sanandis. De origine morbi Gallici. : Alphonsus Ferrius: De sclopetorum sive archibusorum vulneribus. : Jacobus Dondi: Aggregator (his famous pharmaceutical work). 10: Fabry of Hilden: Centuria observationum et curationum chirurgicarum. One of the earliest editions of the Collected Hundred ‘‘ Observationes ”’, first published in 1606. Fine complete copy of this important collection, only slightly browned. RABELAIS’ EDITION OF HIPPOCRATES’ APHORISMS. (RABELAIS, Francois). — HIPPOCRATES. Aphorismorum Hippocratis sectiones septem ex FRANCISCI RABELAESILT RECOGNITIONE. Latin and Greek text. Two parts. 318 pp., 1 blank leaf; 32 leaves. Printer’s device repeated. Small 16mo. Modern vellum. Lyons, Seb. Gryphius, 1545. Era. 275. —.~ « : An exceedingly rare booklet. , One of the very first Latin editions of Hippocrates’ Aphorisms. One of the earliest works published by Ra- belais. Copies (as ours) containing both parts (Greek and Latin part) are of particular rarity. Choulant, Handbuch, p. 33. Brunet III, 173. ‘« Rabelais had studied medicine in Paris and at Montpellier. For an edition of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates he consulted Greek manuscripts. The father of Medicine had been known chiefly through Latin translations. Rabelais, probably for the first time in any European University, lectured from the Greek text ’’ (Osler). — On the second title of our edition appears the date of 1543, but it is really printed in 1545. Two first leaves browned, some waterstains through the first part of the book, besides good and complete copy of this very rare work. ONID OF 144 145. RAMAZZINI, Bernhardinus, Opera omnia medica et physiologica. Acc. Vita auctoris a B. Ra- mazzino. 5 leaves, 292 pp., 2 leaves, 236 pp. With 5 engraved plates. 4to. Half vellum. F London, 1742. Frs. 35. — rs Good London edition of the Opera omnia. Contains also the ‘‘ De morbis artificium diatriba ’’’, This work opened ; up an entirely new department of modern medicine, the diseases and hygiene of occupations. Ramazzini was es the first after Paracelsus to call attention to such conditions as stone-mason’s and miner’s phtysis, the vertigo and sciatica of potters, the eye-troubles of gilders, printers, and other occupations. He was a good epidemiologist. _ wire as A MONUMENTAL EDITION OF RHAZES’ CONTINENS. ES, Abu Bekr Muham havy, id es Lae vitial an numer #4 lio. In its origin ~ t Continens artem medicinae. Per ye deat Shes un 234 ] a ‘iis SE 7 rooden backed — Frs. 400. — Choulant, Handbuch, p. 343. Very rare. A master piece of Venetian typographic art of these times and a monumental edition of this classical medical work. ‘‘ Rhazes was the most celebrated and probably the most original of the Arabic writers who followed both Hippocrates and Galen in their methods and ideas. He was a great clinician and ranks with Hippo- crates as one of the original portrayers of disease, The ‘ Liber Con- tinens’, the largest and most important of his productions, was an encyclopaedia of medicine and surgery containing a summary of all NI the branches of the art and science of medicine in 25 books. This is work exceeds in bulk the Canon of Avicenna and shows Rhazes a ri follower of Hippocrates in theory and of Galen in practice. The ninth book of the ‘ Continens’ deals with pharmacology, and was a source 9 of therapeutic knowledge in Europe long after the Renaissance ’’ - (Campbell). : A few wormholes through first and last leaves, a few stains in places, but a fine and tall copy of this monumental edition. — See repro- Rhazes, 1506 nr. 146. duction hereby. 147. SCARPA, Antonio. Anatomicarum annotationum libri duo. Liber primus: De nervorum gang- Re: liis et plexubus. Liber secundus: De organo olfactus praecipuo deque nervis nasalibus | interioribus et pari quinto nervorum cerebri. Two parts. 112 pp.; 8 and 104 pp. With 6 large folding copper-plates, two of which are outline. Quarto. Original vellum. Pavia, 1785. Frs. 65. — Choulant-Frank, pp. 298-299. : ‘‘ Contains two copperplates in large quarto folio, representing the distribution of nerve fibers in the ganglia and the plexus, made perceptible by means of maceration in water. They are drawn by Scarpa and engraved by An- | derloni. — (De organo olfactus) : ‘‘ Two copperplates in quarto folio, drawn by Scarpa and engraved in stipple, the $ first by Charles Knight of London, and the second by Quirin Mark of Vienna. The plates represent the position and distribution of the olfactory nerves ’’ (Ch.-Frk). — Rare.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33159646_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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