Seguin, Pierre (1566-1648) (& others)

Lecture notes on 'Methodus medendi' (beginning wanting), on Galenic pathology, and on lues venerea, etc.: with other medical extracts and notes. Written by Remigius Suhardus. Contents: (1) Seguin (Pierre). Particularis methodi medendi sectio tertia (pars prima et altera). 1612-13. [ff. 147-207]. (2) Schmitz [(Johannes Andreas)] & Rumphius [(Christianus Constantinus)]. Arthritidis supplementum [1 l.]. (3) [Seguin (P.)?]. Tractatus de lue venerea. [27 ff. + 1 l.]. (4) [Suhardus (R.)?]. De rheumatismo. 1658. [2 ll.]. (5) [Suhardus (R.)?]. De pulvere Cornacchino. [3 ll.]. (6) [Seguin (P.)?]. Pathologia. [58 ff.]. (7) [Suhardus (R.)?]. Memorabilia quaedam. De motu et sensu in somno De subita canitie. [2 ll.]. (8) Wharton (Thomas). Discours des glandes. [1 l.]. No. 2 Christianus Constantinus Rumphius [1633-1706] edited the 'Medicinae practicae compendium' of Johannes Andreas Schmitz [ -1652], first published in Paris in 1666, from which this extract is taken. 8 Thomas Wharton [1614-1673] first published his 'Adenographia' in 1656. On the verso of the last leaf of the note 'De rheumatismo' is a 'Rescriptum ad consultationem Suhardi pro Dno. de la Droetière Furry, asthmatico orthopnoico' dated 1670, and below a 'Rescriptum pro eodem morbo a Domino de la Martinière Medico Cenomanensi [Le Mans]': and on the next leaf two others for the same by Du Chesnay, a Physician of the same town. Produced in Paris.

1612-1670

1 volume ff. 147-207 + 1 l. + 26 ff. + 1 l. + 5 ll + 58 ff. 7 ll. (last 4 bl.). 4to. 271/2 x 21 cm. Modern quarter calf binding. Ff. 1-146 of the first work are wanting.

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Purchased 1929.

The Lectures were given at the Collège Royal in Paris.

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).