Claudii Galeni Pergameni Ars Medicinalis...Nunc Primum Diligenti Sime Ad Fidem Veneti Exemplaris Recognita
Lugduni: Gulielmum Rouillium, 1542. Hardcover. 32mo. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #001318
Calf, with gilt fillets on spine and corners tooled in gilt. Newer endpapers. 32mo. [2] 3-158 p.p. plus colophon. Light rubbing to spine and edges. Very light scratches to boards. Sporadic staining to leaves and endpapers, noticeably to blank leaf preceeding title page, and to verso of leaf after colophon. Early marginalia and underlined passages throughout. "In memoriam C.D. Wood 24. Ap. 1920...W.S. Dawson" pasted to front free endpaper. Else a near fine copy. Claudius Galenus [129 AD to c.210 AD) was an influential surgeon during the Roman Empire, whose early medical writings were required reading for medieval medical students in university up until the 16th century. Niccolo Leoniceno [1428-1524] was an Italian humanist scholar and physician who is credited for publishing the paper on syphilis. He produced many important translations of Galen and Hippocrates. The first chapter of this work begins with the question, what is medicine? It also discusses best standards, signs of healthy and unhealthy bodies, signs of hot and humid brain, and touches on both male and female physiology.
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