HIPPOCRATES Hippocratis octoginta volumina 1525

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HIPPOCRATES. Hippocratis . . . octoginta volumina. Latin translation by Marco Fabio Calvo. Title within woodcut architectural border. [84], 733 [i. e., 732], [4] pages, including colophon leaf and final blank. Folio, 280x205 mm, modern panelled calf in period style; light dampstaining in lower outer corners through most of volume, occasional minor worming in lower outer corners entering sidenotes on a few leaves, repaired clean tear in blank lower margin of 3H2, blank corners of last few leaves reinforced, early signatures on title. Rome: Francesco Minizio Calvo, 1525

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first collected edition of the hippocratic corpus, comprising predominantly late 5th-/early 4th-century B.C. works from the medical school of Cos. "Although none . . . can be attributed with certainty to Hippocrates, the writings retain their historical significance as the earliest extant sources of Western medical thought and practice . . . Although various fragments of the Hippocratic collection had been published earlier in Greek and Latin versions, the present work is the first collected edition of the Hippocratic writings" (Norman). The original Greek text of the corpus was printed the following year by the Aldine Press. Durling 2320; Garrison-Morton 13 note; Norman 55; Printing and the Mind of Man 55; Sarton I, 99.