Author: PITCAIRN, A.
Title: Elementa medicinae physico - emathematica, libris duobus,...nunc primum in lucem edita.
Description: Hagae Comitum, Apud Henricum Scheurleer, 1718. 4to. Title in red and black. Original blindst. panelled clf. covers, spine rebacked in a lighter colour clf. Outer upper hinge partly split, corners and edges rubb., dam. [*4-6*4, A-Z4, Aa-Gg4]. (XLVIII, 222, XVIII ['Elenchus Materiarum' & Index] pp.). (one or two pinhole wormholes throughout, growing into a wormtrack on pp. 107-156 & prelims I-XL & last 3 lvs.; overall in the text some soiling and foxing). (Inscr. in ink on printed title to Gul.: Livingston MD). Copy inscribed to the Leiden [MD, June 5, 1788 'de scrophula', see Innes Smith, p. 143] doctor Livingston.... Published by the publishing firm of Henri Scheurleer, The Hague, active period 1710-1741. See Ledeboer [1872] pp. 173 - 174:Kossman, De Boekhandel te 's Gravenhage, pp. 349 - 352: Gruys & de Wolf, pp. 146 & 252: DSB X, p1/3: 'Elementa medicinae purports to present the substance of Pitcairn's lectures at Leiden as recorded in student notes': DMB c. 1537/8: 'Inspired by Harvey and Borelli he was a devoted adherent of the iatromechanical ...school of medicine... November 1691. Pitcairn was appointed prof. of med. at Leyden ...': Von Raller I, 761/2:: Innes Smith, 182/4 (Pitcairne, Archibald, 'Professor of Physics at Leyden, April, 25, 1692. Amongst his pupils were Richard Mead and Herman Boerhaave.), and p.143 (for the MD Gulielmus Livingston to whom this copy of P's 'Elementa' was presented. Inscr. on title page). : Comp. BMN III, 598 (ed. 1740 only): Truman Blocker, 315: Blake, 354: Comrie, Scottish Medicine I, 273/7: Book I deals w. the human body in general, Book II w. 29 diseases in particular: Second latin ed.:

Keywords: history iatrochemistry Anatomy W31A