Author: DEUSING, A.- A.KYPER.- DE BILS.-
Title: Epistolae Dehortatoriae ad Antonium Deusingium Medic. Profess. celeberr. Editio tertia locupletior cum Apolline Redivivo. Dabis improbe paenas.
Description: Lovanii [=Groningae?], 1664. 12 mo. W. woodc. vign. on title depicting Mercury grabbing a sater by the horns as it were...hahahaha. Recent half vellum over grey blue paper brds, spine giltlett. [...]. (40, 8, 49 - 68 pp.). (Lower part of titlepage a little vague.). (Uncut.). Very rare pamphlet in which Deusing is favoured over Sylvius in their conflict. Libellous and sometimes in obscene language, the unknown author [De Bils and Kyper are mentioned] does not spare Sylvius' feelings. For the conflict see: .... DMB c. 432 - 434: Deusing (1612-1666).... : Banga. pp. 344 - 355: NNBW vol. VIII, c. 383 - 384: Thorndike vol. VIII, pp. 516 - 517: "In the Netherlands a disease had become prevalent...known as Man-Slacht and which consisted in a state of agitation ... brought on by the passing of a homicide ...Deusing adressed a treatise on the superstitious origin...": This publication is followed by a dissertation on lycanthropy by Elias v.d.Burgh." Krivatsky 3162: Waller I, 2410: Caillet 3094: Guyot 292/3: An English translation of the 3rd and 4th part of this publication (The deaf and dumb man's discours' and 'the Tract of the reason and speech of inanimate creatures') appeared in 1670 from the hand of G. Sibscota : Bayle & Thill. II, 423/26: Bayle & Thillaye, vol. I, pp. 426 - 427: Rare.

Keywords: Anatomy Groningen