Author: FERNEL, J.
Title: Universa Medicina: ab ipso Quidem Authore ante obitum diligenter recognita, & iustis acceßionibus locupletata: Postea auté studio & diligentia Gul. Plantij Cenomani postremû elimata, & in libru Therapeutices septimum doctiss. scholiis illustrata. Editio Quarta. b.u.w. 2) IDEM, Consiliorum Medicinalium Liber.
Description: Francofurti, Apud Andream Wechelum, 1581. - 1584. Thick 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. Woodc. printersmark on first printed title & 1 woodc. portr. ill. on leaf e1 verso. 17th c. full overlapping vellum, author, title and year in ink on spine (not contemp. w. binding.). (Top of spine, upper overlapping part a few chips / imperf., nothing serious.). [a8, e8, A-Y8, Z4; A-I8]. (XXXII, 670, LVIII (index) pp.; 143, I pp.). (All edges blue.). (First prt. title w. vague name stamp; throughout many near contemp., probably early 17th c. [up to 1614] annotations and underlinings; upper free endp. recto and verso idem but somewhat later; printed title w. dated signature in ink of (first?) owner: 'Conradus Jordan Bo...psis .. Aa. Christi CIC IC CXIII.' and further down a vague sign. in ink and dated 'Ao 1612'). Very good copy with a good many contemp. annotations in ink. Fourth edition. DSB, vol. IV, pp. 584 - 586 'His ranking in the history of medicine... rests mainly upon his role as a reformer fighting to replace magic, sorcery, and astrology with observations at the sickbed.': Comp. Norman coll. vol. I, item 785 (first edition 1554, then called 'Medicina', edited by Plancy it became '"Medicina Universa' in 1567): '... a standard textbook of medicine in Europe, was divided into three parts, "Physiologiae" [then ofcourse the humoral medicine], "Pathologiae", and "Therapeutice". The first book, a reworking of his 1547 book "De Naturael parte medicinae", gave the science of phsyiology its present name, and included valuable observations on peristalsi, the systole and diastole of the heart, and the spinal canal. The second book introduced the term "Pathology", and gave the first systematic treatment of that science, ... Fernel classified diseases as general (indeterminate) or special (localized), distinguished symptoms and signs of disease, and gathered together the best information of his day on organic abnormality in disease, which he organzied according to the organ or function affected.': Comp. G&M 2271: 'The first systematic treatise on pathology, which also introduced the names for the sciences of pathology and phsyiology...': Long, pp. 38 - 41: C.S.Sherrington, 'Endeavour of Jean Fernel', i.l.c.: Up to the end of the 17th c. numerous eds. were printed, testifying to the importance of the book.

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