Author: SETTALA.- SEPTALIUS, Ludov.
Title: 3) Animadversionum & Cautionum Medicarum Libri Novem [ Books I to VII], Denuò à J.Perio recogniti, & hac postremâ editione, expurgatis quamplurimis mendis, novo nitori restituti, & duo Indices additi; quibus acceßit ejusdem Auctoris Liber de Naevis cum indice. Bound before: 1) IDEM, Animadversionum ... Libri Duo [Books VIII and IX], cum copiosissimo Indice, septem aliis editis postea additi, ... AND 2) IDEM, De Naevis Liber. Editio postrema emendiator, & indiculo auctior.
Description: Dordrechti, Apud Vinçentium Caimax, Bibliopolam, 1650. Sm 8vo. 3 parts in 1 vol. W. 3 identical woodc. printer's marks on the separate pr. titles ['Oliva Minervae'] & a few woodc. head- and tailpieces. The 3rd title printed in red and black. Cont. full vellum, title in ink on spine. [collation in order of the parts: 3) A-V8; 1) Aa8-Qq8, Rr4; Rr5 to Rr8, Ss-Tt8]. (245, XIX (Index); 34, VI (Index); VIII, 9 -280, XL (INdex) pp.). ). (Part 2 w. small libr. stamp ['Genootschap ..Genees - en heelkunde te Amsterdam'] and deaccession stamp; owner's inscr. in ink on title.; Upper paste down w. bookplate coll. van der Hoeven, idem library coll of 'F.W.Kauhlen'.). (Inscr. in ink on upper free endp. 'Dr. J van der Hoeven... 1902'). (All edges speckled red.). A very good copy. BMN vol. I p. 72: Hirsch / H., Vol. 5, p. 239: Ludovico Settala, 1552 - 1633. Famous 16th c. Italian practitioner. 'Seine Schriften sind besonders reich an eigenen therapeut. Erfahrungen.' His main work is the 'Animadversinum...'[First published in Milano 1614, later in 1626; also Strassburg 1625, Padua 1628]. Enlarged and corrected eds. a.o. Dordrecht 1650.: Biogr. Médicale vol. VII, pp. 205 - 207: Gurlt, Hist. of Surgery, vol. II, pp. 538 - 541. Gurlt used the edition Dordrecht 1650 here offered as the basis for his article on Settala in his 'Geschichte der Chirurgie'. The 9 books in this publication are the fruit of 40 years experience and include observations on general medicine, Dietetics, pharmacy, bloodletting, fevers, local diseases 'a capite ad calcem', the treatment of wounds [book VIII] & the final book on the compounds of medicines.: Krivatsy, 11039: 4th collected edition.

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