Ortus medicinae, id est Initia physicae inaudita : progressus medicinae nouus, in morborum vltionem ad vitam longam / authore Ioan. Baptista Van Helmont ... ; edente authoris filio Francisco Mercurio Van Helmont ; cum eius praefatione ex Belgico translata.

Lugduni : Sumptibus Ioan. Ant. Huguetan, & Guillielmi Barbier, M.DC.LXVII [1667]

24 unnumbered pages, 487 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 192 pages, 60 unnumbered pages : portraits, coats of arms ; folio (36 cm)

Editio quarta /

Engraved t.p.

Half title: Ioannis Baptistae Van Helmont Opera.

"Ioannis Baptistae Val Helmont ... Opuscula medica inaudita. I. De lithiasi. II. De febribus. III. De humoribus Galeni. IV. De peste. Editio sexta multò emendatior. Pars II. ...": 192 p., with special t.p.

Last leaf blank.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Lacks half-title. Bound in 17th century panel stamped parchment. Manuscript inscription on front endleaf: Liber Joh: Atkins omplg Lugd. Batav: [Fe]bry 7th sly: no: 1674. Manuscript inscription on front pastedown: E[x] lib Geo. Fred. Boyd. This book was formerly part of the collection of the Medical Society of London, which was deposited for safekeeping in the Wellcome Library in 1964. It was eventually purchased by the Wellcome Trust in 1984, with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities.