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ACTUARIUS, JOANNES. De medicamentorum compositione. 143, [9] leaves. Latin translation by Jean Ruel. 16mo, 104x69 mm, contemporary limp vellum, soiled and discolored; light marginal dampstaining throughout. (Venice: Melchiorre Sessa, 1541)
Work on pharmacology and therapeutics by a 13th-/14th-century Byzantine physician, forming the fifth and sixth books of his Methodus medendi, a treatise on general medicine. Ruel's translation was first published in 1539. Choulant, Handbuch, page 154; Durling 2584; Hoffmann II, 397; Sarton III, 889.
