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Paris: Nicolaum Redelichuysen, 1645. First edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Octavo. (11) 150 (25), 39 (1) leaves. Rebound in modern brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Red edges. First title page printed in red and black with publisher's device. Historiated and decorative headpieces, tailpieces and initials. Both titles second editions, Alpini's title first published in 1591, Bondt's in 1642. Alpini was a physician and botanist, Bondt a Dutch physician and pioneer of tropical medicine. Alpini's work is illustrated with four in-text and two full page woodcuts. Alpini traveled in Egypt and became the fourth prefect of the Botanical Garden in Padua. "One of the earliest European studies of nonwestern medicine. Alpini's work dealt primarily with contemporary (i.e. Turkish) practices observed during a three-year sojourn in Egypt. These included moxibustion - the production of counter-irritation by placing burning or heated material on the skin - which Alpini introduced into European medicine...…
Read More De Medicina Aegyptiorum. Libri Quatuor In Quibus Multa cum de vario mittendi sanguinis usu per venas, arterias, cucurbitulas, ac scarificationes nostris inusitatas, deq; inustionibus, & alijs chyrurgicis operationibus, tum de quamplurimis medicamentis apud Aegyptios frequentioribus, elucescunt. by ALPINI, Prospero - 1591
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De Medicina Aegyptiorum. Libri Quatuor In Quibus Multa cum de vario mittendi sanguinis usu per venas, arterias, cucurbitulas, ac scarificationes nostris inusitatas, deq; inustionibus, & alijs chyrurgicis operationibus, tum de quamplurimis medicamentis apud Aegyptios frequentioribus, elucescunt.
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Venetiis: Apud Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem 1591, 1591. First edition. ll. [xii], 150, 25 (index). Text in Latin. Roman and italic types, woodcut initials, publisher's woodcut device on title, five text woodcuts, two of which are full-page. Bound in eighteenth century calf, rebacked. Five raised bands, with decorative blind stamping to the panels save for the second panel which contains a burgundy label with the title in gilt and gilt decoration. Marbled endpapers. � An important work on the practice of medicine in Egypt. Alpinus (1553-1617) was a Venetian physician who spent several years in Egypt. One of the earliest European studies of non-Western medicine. Alpinus's work dealt primarily with contemporary (i.e. Turkish) practices observed during a three-year sojourn in Egypt. These included moxibustion--the production of counter-irritation by placing burning or heated material on the skin--which Alpinus introduced into European medicine. Alpinus's work also contains the first printed account in Europe of the coffee plant. Inscription of J.R.A Bailey on front free endpaper. Bailey was the founder of Drum magazine in South Africa and a leading figure in the anti-apartheid movement. Adams A-802; Cushing A146; Garrison-Morton 6468; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 16; Heirs of Hippocrates 240 (1646 edn.); NLM/Durling 178; Norman 39; Osler 1796; Waller 12509; Wellcome 232.
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De Medicina Aegyptiorum. Libri Quatuor. & Iacobi Bontii In Indiis Archiatri, de Medicina Indorum. Editio Ultima
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De medicina Aegyptiorum, libri quatuor. & Iacobi Bontii In Indiis archiatri, De medicina Indorum. Editio ultima.Paris, Nicolaus Redelichuysen, 1645. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 4to (22.5 x 17.5 cm). Title-page printed in red and black; woodcut chapter initials, headpieces and tailpieces, 5 woodcut illustrations on integral leaves (3 full-page). Contemporary vellum, title in gold on red spine label.
by ALPINO, Prospero (Prosper ALPINI), and Jacob de BONDT (BONTIUS)
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[11], 150, [25]; 39, [1] ff.17th-century edition of the first important work on the history of Egyptian medicine, by Prospero Alpino, first published in 1591, with the second edition of Jacob de Bondts study of medicine in the East Indies, first published (separately) in 1642, both in the original Latin. Alpino (1553-1617) was an Italian physician and botanist who spent three years in Egypt studying botany and hygiene as a companion to the Venetian Consul Giorgio Emo. His present work is considered "one of the earliest European studies of non-western medicine" (Norman Lib.). Jacob de Bondt (1592-1631), whose work on East Indian medicine is included, was a Dutch physician and botanist. He spent the last four years of his life in the Dutch East Indies, and his book incorporates the experience he gained there. It is the first Dutch work [NB: by a Dutch author and first published in the Netherlands, but in Latin] on tropical medicine and includes the first modern descriptions of beri-beri and cholera"…
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