Author: KYPER, A.
Title: Medicinam rite discendi et exercendi methodus.
Description: Lugd. Batavorum, Apud Hieronymum de Vogel, 1643. 12mo. W. small woodc. vign. on title. Contemp. full overlapping vellum, red spine label, gilt. [A-N12, O6]. (320, IV (Index) pp.). (Libr. stamp on title, first 13 lvs. an unimportant vague watersp. in lower blank margin; last 3 or 4 lvs. a small (pinhole) wormh.). (Bookplate on upper paste down 'Umberto Calamida'.). First edition. BMN I, p. 1: Waller I, 5466: Parkinson/Lumb, 1385: Wellcome III, 421: DMB p. 1117 - 19: " ... was born in Koningsberg (Prussia) ... graduated at Leyden in 1638. In this period he published (Medicinam rite) ... in this small work he praised the Leyden University, but took the liberty to criticize sharply the 'Fundamenta medicinae' of the Louvain Professor Plempius.": Vermostius of Louvain wrote a defense of his teacher. "Kyper retorted his booklet in an appendix to his ... 'Institutiones physicae'.: Banga, p. 407/15: NNBW VII, 732. Kyper was a follower of Harvey (see Keynes p. 124).

Keywords: c 17th century general medicine Leiden