Medicina practica, seu de cognoscendis, discernendis, & curandis, omnibus humani corporis affectibus, earumque causis indagandis.
Frankfurt: Joannis Theobaldi Schonwetteri, 1601.
1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #001653
Folio (321 x 198 mm). [8], 652, [40] pp. Woodcut printer's device to title, contemporary owners name "David Bolton" to endpaper and some ink notes to title and one text leaf, faint library stamp to title, contemporary flexible full vellum (soiled and warped, several puncture marks to lower cover), marginal dampstaining, foxing and browning throughout, some worming to lower margin. Complete and good copy overall. ---
Very rare first edition of this work. Girolamo Mercuriale's Medicina practica (1601) contains a section dedicated to the illnesses of the head, among which the author listed traditional categories of insanity: melancholy in its various forms. (M.Calabritto, Medicina practica ,consilia and the illnessesof the head in Girolamo Mercurialeand Giulio Cesare Claudini. Similarities and differences of the Sexes).
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