BOERHAAVE, HERMAN - Aphorismes sur la connoissance et la cure des maladies. Traduits en francois par (Jean Offray de la Mettrie). Nouvelle édition revue & corrigée.
Paris, Huart, 1745. Hard Cover, 8vo, 6, + 550p. + 1 p. Very Good/No Jacket. Np.¶ A major medical work by one of the most famous of doctors and chemists of the Netherlands, and one of the founders of modern diagnostic methods. "The 'Aphorisms' represent one of Boerhaave's best works ." ~ Garrison-M. 2199 for the First Edition in Latin of 1709. "Like the 'Institutiones', Boerhaave's 'aphorismi' had an academic origin, being based upon his privately taught course in practical medicine" (Norman). "The book contains 1479 aphorisms which reveal contemporary knowledge and the personal experience of the author in a concise and dogmatic manner" (Lindeboom). Lindeboom 190; Caillet, Vol. I, 1312 [this edition], Blake 52; Hirsch I/597-602; Dict. of Scien. Biog. II/224-228; In calf, spine richly decorated in gilt, gilt title, VG..
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