CESALPINO ANDREA Praxis universae artis medicinae 1606

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CESALPINO ON THE CIRCULATION CESALPINO, ANDREA. Praxis universae artis medicinae. xvi, 715 pages. 8vo, contemporary limp vellum; occasional heavy browning, scattered stains, occasional early underscoring and marginalia, old inscriptions on endleaves. Treviso: Roberto Meietti, 1606

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Second edition of a treatise on practical medicine originally published in 1602-03 as Artis medicae pars prima[-secunda], comprising sections on fevers, poisons, venereal diseases, and diseases and conditions affecting the head, thorax, abdomen, and genitals. The thoracic section contains a discussion of Cesalpino's ideas on the flow of blood from the arteries to the veins in the peripheral circulation. Heirs of Hippocrates 317; Krivatsy 2344. With the signature of the medical historian Walter Pagel (1898-1983), who wrote about this work in his 1967 study William Harvey's Biological Ideas, page 179.