Item #002093 Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita... / Opuscula medica inaudita. Editio secunda. Johan Baptist von HELMONT.
Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita... / Opuscula medica inaudita. Editio secunda.
Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita... / Opuscula medica inaudita. Editio secunda.
Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita... / Opuscula medica inaudita. Editio secunda.
Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita... / Opuscula medica inaudita. Editio secunda.
Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita... / Opuscula medica inaudita. Editio secunda.

Inventing the word 'gas'

Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita... / Opuscula medica inaudita. Editio secunda.

Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1648.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002093

Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita. Progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem, ad vitam longam. Edente authoris filio, F. M. van Helmont. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1648. [36], 1-88, 87-158, 161-176, 175-382, 373-452, 457-800 pp. With engraved portraits of Helmont and his son on *4v and some woodcuts in text, frequent mispaginations. Bound with: [same author]. Opuscula medica inaudita. Editio secunda. Three parts in one. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1648. Two works in one volume. 4to (192x152 mm). [1-2] 3-115 [1]; [2], [6], 110, [2]; [1-3] 4-88 pp., general title- and separate title-leaves for each part, De Febribus misbound at beginning, with the blank leaf before De Peste. Contemporary full vellum with spined titled in manuscript (soiled). Slightly browned, minor spotting, occasional light marginal dampstains and a few ink spots, some ink annotations and markings in contemporary hand. Provenace: F. Pape, Heidelberg (inscription to title-page, dated 1827); Becker (cancelled inscription to first flyleaf), elligible inscription dated 1807 to front pastedown. Fine copy in original binding, collated complete. ----

PMM 135; Norman 1048; NLM/Krivatsy 5447; Heirs of Hippocrates 254; Osler 2929, Waller 4307; Wellcome III, 241; Hirsch-H. III,153; Willems 1066; Garrison-Morton 665 - FIRST COLLECTED EDITION; second edition of Opuscula medica inaudita. "Helmont was one of the founders of biochemistry. He was the first to realize the physiological importance of ferments and gases, and indeed invented the word 'gas'. He introduced the gravimetric idea in the analysis of urine. The above work is a collection of his writings, issued by his son" (Garrison-Morton).
"Helmont devoted his life to exploring the first principles of nature through chemistry. He is best remembered as the discoverer of gas, a term he coined to describe the 'specific smokes' that remain after the combustion of solids and fluids; among the gases he identified were carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, chlorine gas and sulphur dioxide. He denied that metals dissolved in acid were either destroyed or transmuted, stating that such metals were recoverable in their original quantities, and correctly identifying the process of precipitation. Like Paracelsus, he rejected traditional humoral pathology and advocated an ontological concept of disease, regarding each disease as a specific entity caused by a specific pathogenic agent. He demonstrated that acid is the agent in animal digestion and came near to identifying it as hydrochloric acid; he also identified the causes of asthma and correctly described fever as a part of the body's natural healing process... Though separately paginated 'Opuscula medica inaudita' is considered a part of the whole volume, as indicated by the 'Index tractatum' on 5*5 - 5*6. Originally published as a separate work in 1644, 'Opuscula medica inaudita' contains reprints of Helmont's treatises on the stone, on fevers, on the errors of humoral pathology, and on the plague" (Norman 1048).

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