Sylvius. Opera medica. 1695
LE BOE, François de [Sylvius]. Francisci Deleboe, Sylvii Opera medica, tam hactenus inedita, quàm variis locis & formis edita nunc verò certo ordine disposita, & in unum volumen redacta. Editio nova cui accedunt Casus medicinales annor. 1659. 60. & 61. quos ex ore cl. Sylvii calamo excepit Joachimus Merian.
Trajecti ad Rhenum & Amstelodami, Guillelmum van de Water & Antonium Scelte, 1695.
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4to (24.3x20.7 cm), (8)-934-(26)-85-(9) pages and one folding portrait. binding: Contemporary full limp vellum, blind pannel on covers with corner pieces and blind centerpiece, spine in seven compartments with manuscript lettering. Few marginal foxing. Binding slightly rubbed and soiled.
Bound after with seperate pagination: "Casus Medicinales, sive Historiae Aegrotorum".
Sylvius was a supporter of the Iatrochemical School. He established at Leiden the first university chemical laboratory in Europe.
Tuberculosis was known to the ancients only in its advanced form, and little progress was made in the knowledge of the condition until the time of Sylvius. He asserted that tuberles are often to be found in the lung and that they softened and suppurated to form cavities. (Garrison & Morton).
Fine copy, complete with the beautifull portraict of Sylvius.
references: Garrison & Morton [2321. edition de 1679].
