Medicine: 18th cent

Delle malattie del corpo umano. This MS. seems to be a semi-popular treatise on general medicine. Produced in Rome.

mid-18th century

1 volume 845 pp. + 3 ll. (first bl.). 4to. 21 × 15 cm. Modern half-calf binding. A title-page is wanting, and an inscription has been struck through in the lower margin of p. 1.

Purchased 1930.

The author was probably a physician of Rome [cf. p. 1], and is strongly opposed to blood-letting, the use of purgatives, and of cold drinks.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).