Oct 09, 2003 - Sale 1979

Sale 1979 - Lot 331

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
WILLIS, THOMAS. Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae, quarum prior agit de fermentatione . . . altera de febribus . . . his accessit dissertatio epistolica de urinis . . . editio tertia. [44], 376 pages, including engraved allegorical additional title. 12mo, old calf, extremities worn, joints cracked, cords intact; old inscriptions in upper and lower margins of additional title. The Hague: Adrianus Vlacq, 1662

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"In this work Willis suggests that fermentation is an activity of the intestines, gives an early description of epidemic typhoid fever, and notes that urine has a sweet taste in diabetes mellitus"--Heirs of Hippocrates 537 (1663 Amsterdam edition). Garrison-Morton 5020 (1659 London original edition).