Author: MARIUS, J.
Title: Traité du castor, dans lequel on explique la nature, les propriétés & l'usage médico-chymique du castoreum dans la médecine. Trad.p.M.Eidous.
Description: Paris, David fils, 1746. in-8. [ii], lx, 280, iv, [3 approbation] pp. Av.3 pl. Basane brun marbré, dos à nerfs (dos endommagé et restauré) ¶ Traduction de l'ouvrage "Castorologia". "The Castorologia of Johann Marius of Ulm was composed about forty years before Johann Francus published it at Augsburg in 1685, overloading it with tiresome Additamenta of his own, full of prescripitons of compound medicines. Marius states that he cured a man in Wurtemberg of mania by covering his head with the skin of a beaver which had just been skinned. (etc.) " Thorndike, History of Magic and Experimental Science, VIII/p.535. The french translation opens with an extract from a letter of Mr Sarrasin, "Médecin du Roi en Canada, touchant l'anatomie du castor écrite à Mr. Pitton de Tournefort."

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