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De cognoscendis et curandis praecipue internis humani corporis morbis libri tres.
Tübingen: Lugduni Batavorum, 1736. [First edition]. Full Calf. Translation to English: Nicolai Piso, the Medici of Lorraine, Concerning the Recognition and Treatment of: Mainly Internal Diseases of the Human Body, Book Three, . And the same Book of Fevers. Preface by Herman Boerhaave. Nicolas Le Pois, an eminent physician, was born at Nancy, in 1527. He studied medicine in Paris under Sylvius and became the dukeís physician in 1578. The result of his practice was published in his most eminent work, printed at Frankfurt in 1580 under the title of "De cognoscendis et curandis prsecipue interi is humani corporis morbis, Libri tres, ex clarissimorum medicorum, turn veterum, turn recentiorum, monumentis non ita pridem collecti." Boerhaave had so high an opinion of Le Pois, that he edited this work, adding a preface and reprinted the work at Leiden in 1736 and again at Leipzig in 1766, both in two volumes. Very Good+. Some discoloration and spotting, missing frontis portrait leaf, otherwise tight, bright and unmarred. Full vellum with handwritten spine title, [424] pp. + index. In Latin. 21 cm. 3 books in one. Item #11303
Price: $450.00