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WEPFER, Johann Jakob.

Observationes medico-practicae, de affectibus capitis internis & externis.

Schaffhausen: Adam Ziegler, 1727.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #003497

4to (220 x 170 mm). [32], 984, [40] pp., title printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the author and one full-size engraved illustration, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. All pages uncut. Signatures: [pi]⁴ )(-3)(⁴ A-6N⁴ including first blank. Contemporary half calf, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt (boards rubbed, extremities worn, spine leather cracky, some minor repairs to spine). Text little browned, some scattered black spotting, minor fraying and soiling of outer edges, pencil annotations. Provenance: James Tait Goodrich. ----
br>NLM/Blake 486, Waller 10222. - FIRST EDITION of this monumental work on the internal and external diseases of the head which was posthumously published from the author's manuscripts. It records nearly 50 years' practice in neurological diseases. Wepfer is best known for his treatise on apoplexy, in which he was the first to recognize that it was often due to cerebral haemorrhage, and for his discovery of the duodenal glands. - Visit our website to see more images!

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