Author: SENNERT, D. [JONCTYS transl. & Ed.]
Title: Verhandeling der Toover - Sieckten. Geschil van de Schôot - en steeck- vrije. Geschil van de Wapen-salve. Paracelsi Vrye-konst. Uyt verscheyde Latijnsche Boecken D. Sennert vertaelt, en by een geschickt door D. Jonctys.
Description: Amsterdam, By Ian Fredericksz Stam, achter de Zuyder-Kerck, in de Hoop [At the end [Y2recto] Amsterdam, By Pieter Dircksz Boeteman, woonende in de S. Nicolaes-straet / gedruckt, Anno 1646], 1646. 8vo. W. engr. front., unsigned and rverse version of the 1638. (A small tear to the upper left corner, restored /consolidated). Fine contemp overlapping vellum. [*8, **6, A - X8, Y2]. (XXVIII, 331, VIII (Index & imprimatur), I (Blank) pp.). (Upper paste down a 1931 dedication in ink father to son 'Hylkema'.). (Some annots. in pencil.). Second edition.[First ed. was 1638]: BMN vol. I, p. 56 [1638 and 1646 eds]: Krivatsy 10958: Ours a variant impressum 'Stam': Ferguson, Bibl. Chemica, vol. II, p. 371 - 373: 'Sennertus, one of the most learned physician of his century, ... renowned not only for his learning, skill and success, but for the charm of his manners, his unselfishness and generosity... He was the first to introduce chemistry as a subject of the medical curriculum and to make a serious effort to harmonise the doctrines of the Galenic medicine with what he considered true in Paracelsus' doctrines... though of immense learning and fully alive to certain current errors, ... he still believed in transmutation, in the application of astrology to medicine and in the supernatural origin of disease. ... His works ... deal chiefly with medicine and natural history... ': Hirsch vol. V. pp. 365 - 366: DSB XII, pp. 310 - 313: Partington, a history of chemistry, vol. II, pp. 271 - 272: Comp. Scheepers I, 571: Waller 8867 (first ed. 1638): Caillet, comp. Vol. III, 10145: Dutch translation of this important popular work on sorcery and witchcraft, potions and the powers of the imagination on one's well being.: Lynn Thorndike, A history of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume VII and VIII, i.l.c.

Keywords: occult occultism alchemy Vilic