Author: SEVERINUS, M.A.
Title: De abscessuum recondita natura, libri VIII. I. De Abscessu critico... II. De Abscessibus per congestum. III. De Abscessibus anomalis. IV. De nivissime observatis abscessibus. V. De Paedarthrocace, abscessu puerorum proprio. VI. De Gibbis, valgis, varis, et aliis ab interna vi varie luxatis. VII. De Eppinyctidibus, roseolis saltantibus et pernionibus. VIII. De Pestilente...[in Greek]. Ed. novissima... Accedunt & clarissimorum virorum judicia super hunc...tractatum.
Description: Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Joannem à Kerckhem, 1724. 4to. W. engr. portr. [Houbraken], very nice engr.front. title, engr. vign. on printed title [Houbraken sculp.] and 17 engr. pls. (3 fold.). Contemp. hlf.clf., over speckled marbled brds.(Upper outer hinge partially splitting, but still firm.). (XL (incl. portrait, engr. title) , 557, I (blank), LVI (Index), II ((Bookseller's catalogue 'Kerchemiana') pp.). (Bookplate on upper paste down 'van der Hoeven'). DSB XII, 332/4: S. (1580-1656) was a famous surgeon from Naples, specialized in swellings: Comp. G&M. 2273 (1632 ed.): 'The first textbook of surgical pathology. It treats all kind of swellings under the term 'abscess' and descrbes neoplasma of the genital organs and sarcomata of bones. Tumours of the breast are classified into four groups, the section devoted to them being one of the most important in the book. This was also the first book to include illustrations of lesions with the text.': Blake, 415: BMN I, 307: Norman Coll. 1932 (1632 ed.): Wolff, 39/40 '(Er hat) einige bisher nicht beschriebene Geschwulstformen naher untersucht, sie klinisch abgesondert und in seinen Werken ausserordentlich naturgetreu abgebildet und beschrieben.' W. ex libris of J. van der Hoeven, M.D. (DMB, 882): Fine illustrated ed. w. engr. portr. by Houbraken.

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