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SEVERINUS, PETRUS [i. e., SØRENSEN, PEDER]. Idea medicinae philosophicae, fundamenta continens totius doctrinae Paracelsicae, Hippocraticae, & Galenicae. [16], 416, [16] pages, including blank last preliminary leaf, penultimate leaf of errata, and last leaf with printer's device and colophon. 4to, 186x147 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, recased with top of spine restored, endpapers renewed; contents heavily browned, early inscriptions on title. Basel: Sixtus Henricpetri, 1571
first edition of a defense of Paracelsian doctrines against traditional medicine. "As the first major synthesis of the Paracelsian corpus, the Idea medicinae philosophicae was highly influential" (DSB). Severinus (1542-1602) was the physician to King Frederick II of Denmark. DSB XII, 335; Durling 4231; Neville II, 461.
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