KENTMANN, Johannes.

Calculorum qui in Corpore ac Membris Hominum Innascuntur, Genera XII.Zürich, [Jacob Gesner], 1565. 8vo. With a large publisher’s device on the title-page and 11 woodcuts in the text, 2 of them nearly full-page, and 2 woodcut initial letters. Modern boards.

      (2), 22 ll. Adams, G-522/[2]; Durling 2656; Hoover 347/[2]; Osler 646/[2]; Sinkankas, Gemology 2366/2; Sparrow, Milestones of Science 82/[8]; Ward 906/[2] & 1251; Wellcome 2804/[2]; Wellisch, A-63/[2]. First and only edition of a treatise on stones found in the human body, including the first known detailed account of gallstones, well illustrated with eleven woodcuts showing more than thirty objects. In addition to stones, it includes growths and indigestable objects swallowed, divided into twelve chapers according to the part of the body in which they were found. Johannes Kentmann (1518-1574), as both mineralogist and city physician of Dresden and Torgau, was ideally suited to discuss this subject. Conrad Gessner included Kentmann’s treatise in his compilation, De Omni Rerum Fossilium Genere, but it is separately signed and foliated for separate publication as well.A very good copy with generous margins. The text of slightly more than one page struck through in ink. Fascinating doctor/mineralogist’s view of "stones" found in human bodies.