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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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The First Separately Issued Archimedean Texts
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ARCHIMEDES/BOETHIUS/CAMPANO Da Novara/GAURICO, Luca, ed.. Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura per Cnu, Archimede Syracusanu atqz boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta. Venice, Ioan. Bapti. Sessa,, 1503.
First published Latin edition of De Mensura Circuli and De Quadratura Parabolae, containing Archimedes' application of the method of exhaustion (the early form of integration) and the earliest theoretical calculation of p; apart from Valla's excerpts of 1501, THE FIRST PRINTED LATIN TEXTS OF ARCHIMEDES (Rose, p. 50).
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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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Newly Illustrated
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NAPIER, John/LOCATELLO, Marco, tr.. Raddologgia, overo Arimmetica Virgolare in due libri divisa: con appresso un espeditissimo Prontuario della Molteplicatione, & poi un libro di Arimmetica Locale. Verona, Angelo Tamo, 1623.
Rare first Italian edition (first 1617) of the first description and explanation of the use of Napier's Bones, an automatic calculating device of interest for the history of computing, designed by the inventor of the logarithm.
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