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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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The Most Important Medical Woodcut 1500
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[BOTANY/MATERIA MEDICA] Anonymous. Ortus Sanitatis. De Herbis et Plantis. De Animalibus et Reptilibus. De Avibus et Volatilibus. De Piscibus et Natatilibus. Strasbourg, Reinhard Beck, 1517.
An unusually fresh example of this early augmented Strasbourg edition of “the most important medical woodcut book printed before 1500” (Hunt) giving descriptions of medicinal plants and medicinal stones, instructions on animal husbandry, and a treatise on urine.
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With 150 Woodcuts
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Anonymous. Herbolario Volgare, nel qual e le virtu de le herbe, & molti altri simplici sec dechiarano, con alcune belle aggionte novamente de latino in volgare tradutto. Venice, Giovanni Andrea Vavassore, 1534.
Rare, second Italian-language edition (first 1522) of the Herbarius latinus, an important document for the dissemination of botanical/medical knowledge in popular culture, particularly for the adoption of this originally German-printed Latin work for readers in the Veneto. With 150 nearly full-page woodcut illustrations of plants.
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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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