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CHARLETON, WALTER. Spiritus gorgonicus, vi sua saxipara exutus; sive, De causis, signis, & sanatione lithiaseos, diatriba. [12], 242, [2] pages, including final blank. 8vo, 154x92 mm, contemporary limp vellum, few small wormholes in covers; moderate foxing and browning, blank portion of title excised and restored, old scrawls on free endpapers. Leiden: Officina Elseviriorum, 1650
first edition. Influenced by the writings of Jan Baptista van Helmont, Charleton's book deals with a lithogenic spirit supposedly responsible for the formation of stones in the digestive and urinary tracts. DSB III, 208; Neville I, 267; Willems 674.
