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PLATTER, FELIX. Observationum, in hominis affectibus plerisq[ue], corpori & animo . . . libri tres. [48], 845 pages. 8vo, 175x109 mm, contemporary vellum; marginal foxing throughout. Basel: Conrad Waldkirch for Ludwig König, 1614
first edition. "Platter's Observations contains concise but vivid descriptions of a wide variety of diseases, including all then known psychiatric disorders together with their treatment. Platter was one of the first to study mental illness scientifically . . . Other contributions to medicine contained in the Observations are the first known case report of death from hypertrophy of the thymus (in an infant), and an account of a meningioma"--Norman 1716. Alden 614/90 (for treatment of syphilis with guaiacum); Garrison-Morton 3789, 4511.1; Krivatsy 9073.
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