Author: MARGGRAF, CHR.- MARGGRAFF.- MARKGRAAVE.- MARGGRAVIUS.-
Title: Prodromus medicinae practicae Dogmaticae & verè Rationalis. Superstrictae circulari sanguinis motui, Nec Non Principiis Chemicis ac Hypothesi Helmontianae & Sylvianae. Exhibens specimen Methodi perquam facilis Medendi plerisque corporis humani affectibus ope Acidi & Alacali. Sub Tabellarum Compendio priumum propositus, & concinnatus opera... Bound up with 2) IDEM, Materia medica contracta, exhibens Simplicia & Composita Medicamenta Officinalia, ex magno numero selecta, ... Destinata Pharmacopoeorum praecipuae, ... Editio secunda ab Authore plurimarum aucta & speciali Indice rerum locupletata.
Description: Lugduni Batavorum, id., Ex officina Arnoldi Doude, Typis Johannis à Gelder, 1673. - 1681. 4to. 2 vols. in 1. Woodc. vigns. on printed tiles. Contemp. full vellum, title in ink on spine, covers and spine some surface soiling and spotting. (Covers warped; Turn ins thus under more stress & owing to this endp. partially splitting, upper endp. at top margin, lower endp. at all 3 sides.) [n2, A - Z2, Aa - Ee2; *4, **4, A - F4 (in this quire F2 misbound at position (F4), thus F1, F3, (F4), F2), G quire idem, H - Z4, Aa - Pp4 (Pp4 blank).]. (IV, 112; XVI, 280, XXII, (Index), II (blank) pp.). (some foxing throughout, some light browning.). Good copy. First part in true 1st editon (Lindeboom mentions a 1674! reissue only), 2nd vol. in 2nd edition (which appeared at Leiden in 1674 for the first time). Lindeboom, DMB, C. 1276 - 1277: Christiaan Marggraff [1626 - 1687], younger brother of Georg, famous for his natural history work 'historia rerum naturalium brasil..'. Christiaan's fields of choice were medicine and chemistry. He studied at Leiden University and graduated MD at Franeker in 1659. He was never appointed professor or lector according to Lindeboom. 'Marggraff gave private lectures, however, for many years with great success (one of his pupils was Bernhard Albinus the Elder). '. See further van der Aa, M p. 68: NNBW vol. I, 1299: Hirsch/Hübotter, vol. IV, p. 80 'Er schrieb "Prodromus..."..."Materia Medica..."... eine damals sehr geschätzte Arbeit...': Eloy, vol. III, pp. 166 - 167: Ferchl, p. 340: Partington, Hist. of Chemistry, vol. II, p. 737, under Le Mort & see note there. The 'Prodromus' dated 1673 only mentioned in Krivatsy [item 7439], here also bound with the 'Materia medica' of 1681 [item 7437]: Welcome IV, p. 53 (both 1674): Waller vol. I, 6249 a(1719 only): Joseph. Bibl. p. 420 (Prodromus only 1685): Rare 1673 edition of the Prodromus.

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