ESTIENNE, HENRI. Dictionarium medicum. 608, [28] pages. 8vo, 172x110 mm, contemporary 1/4 blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard dated 1566 on front cover, partial crack in rear joint, cover corners worn; marginal foxing and dampstaining, early inscription in lower margin of title, blank lower outer corner of A2 restored, free endpapers lacking. 19th-century bookplate of Albert Forbiger; Rush Medical College Library stamp on title and in text. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne for Ulrich Fugger, 1564
first edition of a lexicon based on the writings of the major Greek medical authors. "This valuable Greek-Latin dictionary for the ancient medical writers defined and fixed a large number of anatomical terms, and exerted considerable influence on modern anatomical terminology" (Garrison-Morton). Also included are Hippocratic glossaries by Erotian (first published here) and Galen, and notes by Estienne and Conrad Gesner. Garrison-Morton 6791; Choulant, Handbuch, page 424, also 74 and 106; GLN-2249; Schreiber 151.
