Author: HELWIG (T.A. AND C. VON) Hiatrophilus, T.A. von
Title: Kluger und lustiger Medicus, welcher durch anmuthige Historien, Gespräche und Fragen, nicht allein den jetzigen Zustand der edlen Medicin vor Augen leget....sondern auch den rechten Grund, zum wahrhafften Studio Medico zu kommen..... und sicheren Medicamenten und Recepten mittheilet. Bound up with: VALENTINI KRÄUTERMAN[Chr. v. Hellwig] (Curieuser und vernünfftiger Urin-Artz ... wie man aus dem Urin nicht allein die meisten und vornehmsten Krankheiten ....Andern Theils, Wie man auch aus dem Puls den Zustand des Geblütes.... und Aderlasz-Tafel ....
Description: Zittau, Arnstadt, Verlegts Johann Jacob Schöps; E.L.Redtens, 1728. 8vo. 2 parts in 1 vol. Both titles printed in red and black, both titles w. engr. front. (The Hiatrophilus w. an engr. by J. Petrus of a piss-prophet) and a fold. astrological / bloodletting table in red and black letterpress. (VI, 330, VI (index) pp.; VI, 198, X pp.). (All edges red.). Contemp. full clf., spine in 5 compartments, elaborately gilt, w. brown title shield, faded. (Spine and spine ends dam., outer hinges partially splitting). (Paper some browning throughout.). Ferchl 225, The first book is divided in Collegium Institutionale, c. pharmaceuticum, c. chymicum, c, chirurgicum, c. practicum. 1) Waring I, 77. ad 1) Not in Hirsch. There seems to be no family relation with Christian von Hellwig below, other than that they were both medical men from the same era who both died in the year 1721.: Blake 286: Comp. Waller I, 4293 (ed. 1721): Comp. Joseph. Bibl. p. 249: ad 2) Hirsch III, 149/50: Ferguson I, 374/77 & 479/81: 'Christian von Hellwig, Helwig or Helbig, ... wrote 31 books and half a dozen tracts in his own name on medicine, surgery, anatomy, botany, pharmacy, physics etc. ... He appeared under the pseudonyms Valentin Kräutermann, Caspar Schroeder, and Constant Aletophilus Herzberger...': Comp. Wellcome III, 240 (ed. 1748): Comp. Blake, 205 (eds. 1724, 1725, 1738): Haller, Bibl. Anat. II, 81: Pogg. I, 1058: Eloy II, 489:

Keywords: pharmacology German blood pulse W68