Author: FORTI, RAIMONDO GIOVANNI ['ZANFORTIS']
Title: Consultationum et responsionum medicinalium centuriae quatuor. Raymundi Io: Fortis Veronensis in prima sede Pat. Pract. Ord. Profitentis Illustriss. Atq; Excellentiss. Sapientiss. Viris Huius Archigymnasii Patavini Moderatoribus D.
Description: Patavii [Padua], Typis Matthaei Bolzetta de Cadorinis, superiorum permissu, 1669. Small in Folio. W. fine engraved title, engraved portrait and engr. coat of arms. Contemp. limp marbled brds., spine label in ms. (Outer hinges some rubbing, a few chips and some loss of spine material.). [...]. (XX, 724 pp.). (First portion lower righthand corner a faint watersp.). Hirsch vol. II, p. 573: Bayle & Thillaye vol. I, p. 405: Wellcome vol III, p. 44: Forti was among the first medical men to experiment with blood transfusion in man in Europe. In this book see pp. 263, chapter 44, Centuria II. 'The first transfusion of blood in man was made on 15 june 1667, ...[the 5th transfusion] had been made by Denis, on 10 February 1668.., after this the practice of transfusion faded out as suddenly as it had begun.' (See DSB vol. IV "Denis, Jean Baptiste" p. 37 - 38). See also Peumery, Les Origines de la Transfusion Sanguine, pp. 30 - 35: A large part of centuria III [chapters 1 - 35) is devoted to mental diseases and hypochondria. Forti died 1678, in which year another volume of 'Consultationum ...' was published, also in Padua.

Keywords: Italian books 17th c medicine general W68