Hippocrates

Opera - Hippocratis Coi Medicorum Omnium Longe Principis, Opera : Quibus Maxima Ex Parte Annoru Circiter Duo Millia Latina Caruit Lingua: Graeci Uero & Arabes, & Prisci Nostri Medici, Plurimis Tamen Utilibus Praetermissis, Scripta Sua Illustrarunt: Nunc

      Andreas Cratander 2nd Edition tandem per m. Fabiu Rhauen natem, Gulielmum Copum Basiliensem, Nicolaum Leonicenu, & Andream Brentium, uiros doctissimos Latinitate donata, ac iamprima in lucem aedita: quo reuera humano gene rinihil fieri potuit falubrius. [lii], 492, [2], title and page one within metal cut border by Jakob Faber after Hans Holbein the younger. The margins contain notes in various ancient hands, as well as some old water staining, but still an attractive copy in an old specked calf with a . Title page possibly supplied from another copy. The 2nd latin edition of the works, and the first printed north of the Alps. Although generally based on the first Latinedition , prepared by Fabio Calvio, and printed at Rome in 1525, this Basel edition is textually more complete. The tract De hominis natura has been added in the translation of Andrea Brentio of Padua, as have Aphorisms in the translation of Niccolo Leoniceno, one of the famous Italian's most important works, and De ratione victus in morbus acutis and Praesagiorum liber in the translation of Wilhelm Copus. 'Hippocrates first established an empirical system of medicine based on a combination of bedside experience and a collation of the many individual data which then formed the basis of clinical teaching. The clinical descriptions of fevers, phthisis, puerperal convulsions, epilepsy and other disorders have remained classics and no such records were kept again for over a thousand years. 'The treatise on surgery includes treatment of dislocations and fractures, trephining the skull, descriptions of surgical instruments, rules on public health and diagnosis, a famous work on the brain, on the theory of the four humours, and many others. Laennec specifically acknowledges his debt to the Hippocatic writings in relation to his invention of the stethoscope. The most celebrated section of all is probably the "Aphorisms". 'The ideal of the humane and learned physician originates with Hippocates, and the "Hippocratic Oath" still remains the classic expression of the duties, ethics and moral standards of the medical profession' (Printing and the Mind of Man). Adams H568 ; Bruni Celli 629 ; Choulant p. 25 ; Durling 2321 ; Waller 4496 ; Wellcome 3178. 104a Very Good