Catalogue 36
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Medicine
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The First Book on Pulse
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AEGIDIUS CORBOLIENSIS [GILLES de CORBEIL, Pierre]. De Pulsibus. Padua, Matthaeus Cerdonus, 1484.
First edition of the first printed book on the pulse, a textbook composed in verse by the French physician and humanist Aegidius Corboliensis (Gilles de Corbeil, 1165-1223). Called by Neuburger the transalpine herald of the glory of the school of Salerno, Aegidius composed three poems that amplified and paraphrased the entire Salernitan doctrine in Latin hexameters.
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Scurvy And Public Health
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ALBERTI, Salomon. Schorbuti Historia cui inobservatum vel saltem indictum hactenus symptoma accesit. Wittenberg, Georg Muller, 1594.
Rare first edition of one of the earliest works on the subject of scurvy by the well-known anatomist, undertaken to survey the incidence of the disease in the ducal territories around Wittenberg, and consequently qualifying as an example of public health medicine.
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Debut Of Thoracic Percussion
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AUENBRUGGER, Leopold. Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo Abstrusos Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi. Vienna, J.T. Trattner, 1761.
Very rare first edition, first issue of "one of the greatest of medical classiscs" describing a new method of physical diagnosis--thoracic percussion, namely, tapping a patient's chest and determining from the resultant sound whether it was healthy or diseased.
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Pioneering Hydrotherapy
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BRANCALEONI, Giovanni Francesco. Quam salubria balnea sint: cum ad sanitatem tuendam, tum ad morbos curandos, dialogus adversus neotericos medicos. Rome, A. Bladus de Asula, 1535.
Rare first edition of this influential balneological treatise by one of the founding fathers of hydrotherapy
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How to Think Like a Doctor
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CHAMPIER, Symphorien. Categorie medicinales. In libros demonstrationum Galeni categorie medicinales. In quibus praeclarissima queq(ue): & digna lectu que Galenus in demonstrativis sermonibus... Lyons, J. Marion, June 3, 1516.
First and sole edition of this rare work on the logic of medical analysis and argumentation.
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