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BRASAVOLA, Antonio Musa. |
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EXAMEN OMNIUM SIMPLICIUM MEDICAMENT QUORUM USUS IN PUBLICIS EST OFFICINIS. |
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Venice, Ex officina Erasmiana apud Vincentium Valgrificium, 1545. 8vo. pp. (lxiv), 629. Contemporary full vellum, split at top of spine. Several library marks inside front cover, no endpapers; small wormtrack on edge of title page and last leaf; occasional dark stains in margin of early leaves. Text very clean. |
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* Krivatsky 682; Wellcome I, rev. 1049 (incomplete). Not in Waller, Norman, Osler; this edition not in Adams.
Brasavola (1500-1555) was a pupil of Leonicenus. He served as personal physician to three popes, Emperor Charles V, King Francis I and Henry VIII. He performed a large number of tracheotomies and described over 200 different kinds of syphilis. This work is in the form of a dialogue between Brasavola, an old apothecary, and a herbalist (HoH, 228 - first edition, Lyons, 1537). £575 £485 |
| Author: |
THORNTON, Robert, John |
| Title: |
A NEW FAMILY HERBAL |
| Description: |
or a Popular Account of the Nature and Properties of the Various Plants used in Medicine, Diet, and the Arts. The plants drawn from nature, by Henderson: and engraved on wood, by THOMAS BEWICK. FIRST EDITION. London, Richard Phillips, 1810. pp. xvi, 901, (iii Ð Pubs. ads.); numerous woodcuts. Contemporary calf, spine neatly relaid. Lacks half-title. Old sig. on f.e.p. and washed out sig. at top of title and small part removed stamp on verso of title. Very occasional spots, light foxing of index leaves. Overall, a very good, crisp copy. |
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* Robert Thornton M.D. (1768-1837) acted as physician to the Marylebone Dispensary for many years and is said to have introduced the use of digitalis in scarlet fever. Later he was lecturer in medical botany at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals. £235 £190 |
| Author: |
VICAT, P.R. |
| Title: |
HISTOIRE DES PLANTES VENENEUSES DE LA SUISSE |
| Description: |
Contenant leur description, leurs mauvais effets sur les hommes et sur les animaux, avec leurs antidotes; etc. FIRST EDITION, Yverdon, 1776. pp. xxix, (ii), 392, 112, (x); I folding table, 3 folding plates.Recent full calf. |
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* Vicat (1720-1783) worked in Lausanne. Scarce. £475 £425 |
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