Author: LOMMIUS, Jodocus.
Title: De curandis febribus continuis, liber. In quatuor divisus sectiones: quarum singulae singulorum morbi temporum, quae totidem quoque sunt numero, remedia continent. Dedication to John Freind by the editor John Wigan.
Description: 1718 16 unn. leaves, 208 pp., 4 unn. leaves. Small 8vo. Contemp. calf, spine in 6 compartments gilt, with red label (head and foot of spine expertly restored). London, W.& J. Innys, 1718. Fine copy of this important work on accute and recurrent fevers, the use of purging and bloodletting as cure, and the use of diet as therapy, by the eminent Dutch medic Lommius or Joost van Lom (c. 1500- c. 1564) from Buren. - Wellcome III, p. 539; Blake p. 275; cf. Eimas, Heirs of Hippocrates, 237 (English ed.); Hirsch IV, 33. SCIENCE: MEDICINE ;

Keywords: SCIENCE: MEDICINE ;