Author: BOHN, J.
Title: De renunciatione vulnerum seu vulnerum lethalium examen, exponens horum Formalitatem & Causas, tam in genere, quam in Specie ac per singulas Corporis partes.
Description: Lipsiae, Sumtibus Joh. Frid. Gleditsch, Typis Christophori Fleischeri, 1689. Small 8vo. Contemp. full clf, spine and board edges gilt. (3 of 4 corners bumped/dam; bottom of spine dam., headband showing.). ( VIII, 400, VIII [Index ] pp.). (Bookplate 'Thomas Lauth' on upper paste down endp; quires A- K heavily foxed. (up to pp. 161); rest of the main body of text some foxing.). (All edges speckled marbled.). Rare first edition. DSB II, 237/8: 'Bohn contributed several significant works to forensic medicine. He is considered one of the founders of this discipline and one of the initiators of forensic autopsy.' Haeser, II, p. 304: Hirsch I, 606/7: Garrison, 470, a.o.pl.: 'J. Bohn had accused the reflex movements of the decapitated frog as a 'material phenomenon'. Mettler 381: 'Cardiac rupture was discussed by J. Bohn...': G&M. 1726 (This first ed. 1689): 'The best work on fatal injuries, with frequent references of medico-legal importance.'[Nemec]': Ferguson I, p. 113: 'He laid the foundations of a scientific treatment of forensic medicine. Everyone speaks of Bohn in the highest terms.': Neu 534: Blocker Coll. 45: Wellcome II, 194: Waller, 1246: Classic Work on legal medicine, 'Egregrium opus (Haller)'... und endlich zwei grosse, grundlegende, ja classische Werke über gerichtliche medizin, die noch geschätzt werden'. M. Salomonson. Bohn was a critic of the iatrochemistry, and one of the most prominent experimental physiologists before Haller.: Rothschuh 48/9: Apart from the defects mentioned, a structurally sound and good copy of the first edition.

Keywords: forensics judicial physiology W28A