Author: DEKKERS, Fr. (DECKERS)
Title: Alle de werken, ... betaande in deszelfs Genees - konstige oeffeningen: aantekeningen en aanmerkingen over de genees-oeffening van Paulus Barbette: MD En eindelyk twee Redenvoeringen, De Eerste over de Geneeskunde en wyze van Geneezing. De Tweede Wie in waarheid kundig in de geneeskonst, en in dezelve Ervaren waardig is genoemt te worden. Alles uit het Latyn vertaalt. Voorzien van een Voorrede over het geheele werk, en versiert met 24 Kopere Plaaten. Twee Deelen.
Description: t' Amsteldam, By Jan Hartig, 1743. 4to. W. title printed in red and black, engr. front. [unsigned], engr. fold. portrait ['de Moor pinx / P. van Gunst sculp.'], depicting Dekkers aged 47, 21 engr. plates and 1 textill. Modern half vellum, over orange brown paste paper brds. (28, 454; II (Half title), II (Printed title vol. 2, verso blank), 455 - 928 pp.). (Libr. st. and owners signature ['Arnoldus Lucasz Riedijck(t?) Chirurgijn'] in ink on half title; throughout the book a waterspot in the upper half of the text, mostly vague, but on quite a few leaves [appr. 60 - 80] in the beginning and at the end quite obtrusive.). (A small tear in the lower blank margin of leaf 4I, no loss.). Hirsch vol. II, p. 206: DMB c. 412 - 413: Dekkers (1644 - 1720) was Prof. of medicine at Leyden. Among other things he was the first to describe clearly 'Proteinuria, noting precipitation of urine with heat or acetic acid' in his Exercitationes (1673), (Comp. G&M 4204.1) and also Dekkers first described 'Albuminuria' (comp. G&M 4161). Dekker's books on medicine dealt with diseases arranged into subdivisions according to the remedies prescribed. Dekkers was noted for his excellent medical and surgical observations. Among his teachers we find Franciscus Le Boë Sylvius and Florentinus Schuyl.: BMN vol. I, p. 64: Not in Wellcome, Blake or Waller: Banga, p. 697 - 704:

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