RIOLAN JEAN A Sure Guide; or The Best and Nearest Way to Phy

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RIOLAN, JEAN. A Sure Guide; or, The Best and Nearest Way to Physick and Chyrurgery . . . being, An Anatomical Description of the whole Body of Man . . . Third Edition, Corrected and Amended. Englished by Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. 24 engraved plates. [8], 142, 919-288, [59] pages. Folio, contemporary sheep, rebacked, free endpapers renewed; title soiled, with early ownership inscription, light soiling and dampstaining on some plates, insignificant marginal worming toward end not affecting text or images. London: John Streater for George Sawbridge, 1671

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Third edition in English of Riolan's 1648 Encheiridium anatomicum, an important anatomical textbook of the period though marred by his rejection of Harvey's account of the circulation, which Riolan found irreconcilable with the doctrine of humoral medicine. His critique appears on pages 107-110 of this edition, where he also sets forth an alternative explanation of the circulatory system. DSB XI, 467; Krivatsy 9672-73; Russell 705; Wing R1526.