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Tetrade des plus graves maladies de tout le cerveau. Composé de veilles, observations et pratique des plus sçavans et experts Medecins tant Dogmatiques que Hermetiques.
by DUCHESNE, Sieur de la Violette (Joseph)
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Paris, Claude Morel, 1625. 8vo. 6 pages. 2 leaves. 499 pages. 8 leaves. Half calf, spine ribbed and decorated (19th century binding). First Edition of the French translation of the "Tetras Gravissimorum totius Capitis affectum" by physician and chemist Joseph Duchesne, Sieur de la Violette (1544-1609). After a long stay in Germany, Duchesne became ordinary physician to Henri IV and devoted himself to alchemical studies, promoting the ideas of Paracelsus and chemical medicines derived from metals and minerals. This rare work on neurology has an alchemical background, notably in the preparations and formulas for medicines, drawn from Hermetic practice. The last part of the volume deals specifically with this subject: "De la Signature interne du Vitrio", "De l'Antimoine", "De l'Or et de l'Argent", "De l'Argent vif ou Mercure", etc. Stamp on title page (library of the Société Historique de Gascogne, a learned society founded in Auch in 1859 and dissolved in 1939). A good copy. Brunet, 856. Cf. Ferguson, II, 236-237.
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- Tetrade des plus graves maladies de tout le cerveau. Composé de veilles, observations et pratique des plus sçavans et experts Medecins tant Dogmatiques que Hermetiques.
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- DUCHESNE, Sieur de la Violette (Joseph)
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- Alchimie;Neurologie;Occultisme;MEDECINE;
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