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HELMONT, JAN BAPTISTA VAN. Ortus medicinae. [52], 700 pages, including half-title. Folio, 330x235 mm, modern 1/4 vellum, spine discolored; marginal dampstaining on opening leaves and through second half of volume, worsening at end, scattered marginal repairs not affecting text, last leaf rehinged, with clean tear. Venice: apud Juntas, & Joan. Jacobum Hertz, 1651
Collected writings of one of the founders of biochemistry, who discovered and coined the term for gas. Garrison-Morton 665; Heirs of Hippocrates 409; Norman 1048 (all citing the 1648 original edition); Partington II, 209-40; Thorndike VII, 218-40.
