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SCRIBONIUS LARGUS. Compositiones medicae. Edited with notes and an annotated index by Johan Rode. 2 engraved plates; 12 text illustrations. [24], 144; 465, [42] pages, including half-title and blank last preliminary leaf. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 215x154 mm, contemporary vellum boards, spine darkened; occasional toning and light marginal soiling, small stain on half-title, title and next leaf reinforced in gutter, fore-edge tab on fly-title to index partly detached. Old Capuchin inscription on title. Venice: Paulus Frambottus, 1655
Pharmacological compilation dating from the 1st century A.D. containing the earliest descriptions of the preparation of opium and the application of electrotherapy (using the shock of a torpedo fish to cure headache). Garrison-Morton 1785 and 1984.1 (1528 original edition); Choulant, Handbuch, page 181; Krivatsy 10745; Sarton I, 241.
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