Author: FERNEL, J.
Title: Therapeutices Universalis, seu medendi rationis, linbri septem. Quam totius medicinae tertiam fecit partem, ad praxim perutilem & necessariam. b.u.w. 2) IDEM, Consiliorum [Medicinalium] Liber. Cui accesserunt, Responsa quedam Clarorum Medicorum Parisiensium.
Description: Aurelianae [Orléans], Apud Petrum de la Roviere, 1604. - 1604. Thick 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. Identical woodc. vigns. on printed titles. 18th c. half marbl. clf., over marbled brds., spine w. red title shield, giltlett. [Aa8 - Zz8, 2Aa - 2Nn8; 3A - 3L8]. (552, XXX (Index) pp; 174, II (blank) pp.). (All edges red.). (Lower inner margin pinhole wormh. & first 50 or so pp. of the 'Consiliorum' part a somewhat larger wormtrace, ab. 1 - 1.5 cm.). (Vague contemp. ownership sign. in ink on first printed title.). (Upper blank margin a bit short here and there, only in a few instances cutting into the running title.). Part 3, therapeutics, only. As in the 1605 eds. we find in Krivatsy [items 4020 & 4012] these 1604 editions of the 'Therapeutices' & the 'Consiliorum' are apparently part of a 2 volume edition of Fernel's 'Universa Medicina', the lower blank margin [at Bbi for example] indicating 'Tom. 2'.: Very good copy. 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. Comp. Norman coll. vol. I, comp. 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 part we offer here!]. 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 [1554 ed., 3 parts]: 'The first systematic treatise on pathology, which also introduced the names for the sciences of pathology and phsyiology...': Krivatsy, comp. item 4020 [Lyon 1605 ed.]. 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, also editions of the separate parts, testifying to the importance of the book.

Keywords: pathological anatomy inscribed inscriptions 16th physiology W21