De Aneurysmatibus: Opus Poshumum / Aneurysms: The Latin Text of Rome, 1745
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #006288
The History of Medicine Series, No. 10. First printing. Original blue cloth, silver lettering to spine and upper front board. [B&W frontis. reproduction of original title page], xxxv, 362 pp. Bookplate of Edgar Peer to front pastedown. Sunning to spine and head of boards, offset panel to rear. Interior clean. Lacking jacket, but detached jacket flaps inserted at rear, along with a catalogue record for another of Lancisi's works. Giovanni Maria Lancisi was an Italian clinician and epidemiologist, as well as the physician to three popes. De Aneurysmatibus is not about aneurysms in the present sense, but on the dilation of the heart, and the causes and mechanics of cardiac aneurysms.
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