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AETIUS of Amida. Contractae ex veteribus medicinae tetrabiblos. Latin translation by Janus Cornarius, with partial scholia by Hugo Solerius. [18] leaves, 1030 columns, 1031-32, [19] pages. Folio, old vellum, spine darkened, front cover stained; small semicircular portion gnawed out of blank outer margin of approximately 20 consecutive leaves, marginal dampstaining toward end. Lyon: Godefroy and Marcel Bering, 1549
Compilation by a 6th-century Byzantine physician, " . . . of considerable historical value because of the many extracts from ancient medical writings it contains. Special importance is given to the materia medica, but the encyclopaedia is very extensive and includes internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, ophthalmology"--Sarton I, 434. Durling 49; Choulant, Handbuch, page 134; Hoffmann I, 100; see Garrison-Morton 33, 5814, and 6137.
