AEGIDIUS CORBOLIENSIS [GILLES de CORBEIL, Pierre] / ed. MUTIUS, [A]Venantius/ commentary by FULGINEO, Gentilis de
De Pulsibus
Padua Matthaeus Cerdonus 1484 First edition of the first printed book on the pulse, a textbook composed in verse by the French physician and humanist Aegidius Corboliensis (Gilles de Corbeil, 1165-1223). Called by Neuburger “the transalpine herald of the glory of the school of Salerno,” Aegidius composed three poems that amplified and paraphrased the entire Salernitan doctrine in Latin hexameters.
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