Epilogo en medicina y cirurgia co[n]venie[n]te ala salud.

The Fasciculus Medicinae, a collection of medical texts, was first printed in Latin in 1491, and is widely seen as the first illustrated printed medical text. This Spanish edition includes eight substantial woodcut illustrations, as well as a number of smaller woodcut images. It also adds further medical texts in Spanish to the original Fasciculus collection, including a plague tract. The eight woodcuts in the book are based mostly on those illustrating the Hurus edition [Zaragoza: 15 August 1494], though newly cut for Juan de Burgos's edition. On the verso of the title there is a full-page woodcut of the diagnostic "Urine Wheel"; on sig. a2r a half-page cut of two physicians in dialogue over urine in a glass; sig. b3v a full-page cut of Homo Sigorum ("Zodiac Man"); sig. b6 a folding woodcut anatomical illustration of a pregnant woman; sig. d2 a folding woodcut of the "Wound Man"; sig. e2v a full-page woodcut of "Disease Man"; sig. f1v a small cut of a martyred Saint Sebastian introducing a tract on plague; and on sig. k1v a quarter-page cut within a four-part decorative border of a couple in their marriage bed witnessing a visitation from an angel. This final cut introduces the ninth and last text, a treatise on sexuality and procreation. Also includes Spanish translations of Vasco de Taranta's De epidemia et peste and Michael Scotus' Liber Physiognomiae. Description provided by W.S. Cotter.