Author: SEIDEL, Br.
Title: LIBER, morborum incurabilium causas, mira brevitate, summa lectionis jecundidate exhibens, Medicis atque Theologis apprime ... ad V.D. Guidonem Patinum, Doctorem Medicum Parisiensem .. cum Praefatione ad J.Posthium & J. Obsopoeum... accessit ...B.u.w. 2) Fabritius de Paduanis, Tractatus De Morbis in quibus praesentaneis uti convenit remediis.
Description: Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Petrum Hackium, 1662. Sm 8vo. W. small woodc. vign on title. Contemp. full clf., spine gilt, spine ends w. some dam., headbands intact. Corners bumped. Edges of covers giltruled. [*8, 2*1 [this leaf bound verso - recto], A-P8, Q3 (N6 signed N5)]. (XVIII, 190 [=198]; 34, XIV (index and contents), I (blank) pp.) (First 60 lvs. and last 15 lvs. brown spots in blank margins; up to page 20 also a vague, but visible waterstain in lower inner margin.). (All edges speckled red.). (Some occasional foxing.). Hirsch vol. V, p. 210: 16th c. doctor and poet, born in Querfort around 1530. Studied under Falloppius and taught Goclenius. He died in Erfurt in 1591. ... 'Liber Morborum.. (Frankfurt 1593; Leyden 1662)': BMN vol. I, p. 185:Weil Cats, 24 - 227: Heirs of Hippocrates, 327: 'The present work is in the form of a long letter to Patin (see 480) in which Seidel discusses a great many clinical conditions, chiefly those which are incurable. He includes a long discussion on the shortcomings of the pharmacopoeia of his day in treating most illnesses and injuries, especially those with a poor prognosis. ...' [The H of H copy without the Paduanis 'De Morbis']: Comp. Durling (1593 ed): Waller 8817: Parkinson & Lumb, p. 316: Krivatsy, 10867:

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