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CELSUS, AURELIUS CORNELIUS; et al. De re medica libri octo . . . Accesit huic liber, quam liber Scribonii Largi, titulo Compositionu[m] Medicamentorum. Edited by Jean Ruelle. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border incorporating vignette of Cleopatra committing suicide. [20], 131, [1]; [10], 31, [5] leaves, including blanks Y6 and 2*4 and final leaf with printer's device. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 281x188 mm, 17th-century sprinkled sheep gilt, recased, endpapers renewed, front free endpaper lacking; contents lightly dampwrinkled, with small wormholes in blank margins of opening leaves, scattered foxing and stains. Paris: Chrétien Wechel, 1529
Ninth edition of the medical treatise by Celsus, the oldest Western text of its kind after the Hippocratic corpus, which was first printed in 1478; andfirst edition of the pharmacological compilation by Scribonius Largus, which contains the earliest accounts of the preparation of opium and the application of electrotherapy (using the shock of a torpedo fish to cure headache). Both works were originally composed in the 1st century A.D. This edition also includes the text of the Hippocratic oath, an encomium of medicine by Philipp Melanchthon, writings ascribed to the 4th-century A.D. Roman physician Vindicianus, and the pseudo-Hippocratic letter to Maecenas. Adams C1243; Choulant, Handbuch, pages 169 Durling 910-11; Garrison-Morton 1785 and 1984.1. bound with: GALENUS, CLAUDIUS; et al. De plenitudine [and other texts]. 42; 21, [1] leaves. 2 parts in one volume. Light dampstaining toward end. Paris: Chrétien Wechel, 1528. first edition of a work on the Galenic theory of plethora, or humoral excess. Also included are a tract on dietetics ascribed to Polybus, the previously published herbal attributed to Apuleius Barbarus, and Antonio Benivieni's early treatise on pathology De abditis . . . morborum & sanationum causis, "the first book to give extensive consideration to the practice of post-mortem examinations" (Garrison-Morton 2270, citing the 1507 original edition). Durling 1917; Hoffmann II, 137, and III, 279.
