Enchiridion medicum. Primerose. 1650.
First edition
PRIMEROSE, Jacques [PRIMROSE, James]. Enchiridion medicum. Sive brevissimum medicinae systema.
Amsterdam, Joannem Janssonium, 1650.
300 €
24mo (4,7x2,6 inches) of [6] ff., 223 pp., [3] pp.
binding: Contemporary full ivory vellum binding with overlapping
fore edge. Flat spine.
Without the firs flyleaf.
Scottish origin, Primrose was born in Saint-Jean d'Angely in Saintonge. After he made his humanities at Bordeaux, the liberality of the King of England, the first Jacques gave him the means to study medicine in Paris. He went to a doctor's degree at the Faculty of Montpellier in 1617. He passed after some time in England, became aggregated at the University of Oxford in 1629 and went to settle in Hull in the Duchy of York.
Primrose had a reputation for skillful practitioner was best known for his virulent attacks against the theory of blood circulation by Harvey.
The "Enchiridion Medicum" is a compendium of pharmaceutical medicine.
FIRST EDITION.
VERY GOOD COPY IN ITS CONTEMPORARY FULL VELLUM BINDING.
references: Dezeimeris [III, 758].
