TANSTETTER VON THANNAU, GEORG COLLIMITIUS [1482 - 1535].

- PLAGUE TRACT.- REGIMENT FUR / DEN LAUFF DER PESTILENTZ DURCH / GEORGEN TAN[N]STETTER VO[N] RAIN / DER SIBEN FREYEN KUNST VND / ERTZNEY DOCTOR: KURTZ= / LICH BESCHRIBEN. / WIENN. M.D.XXJ. /. WIEN. NO. PUBLISH., [JOANNES SIGRENIUS?], 1521. 4TO. IN RECENT BRDS. [A4, B2]. (6 LVS.; XI, I (BLANK) PP.). (SOME SURFACE SOILING TO OUTER BLANK MARGINS; UPPER MARGIN A VAGUE WATERSP.; B1VERSO & B2RECTO IDEM DIAGONALLY ACROSS THE PAGE, UNOBTRUSIVE.). WORLDCAT ONLINE: ONLY 1 COPY TRACED ['STAATSBIBLIOTHEK BERLIN']: THORNDIKE, HISTORY OF MAGIC & EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE, VOL. V [16TH C], I.L.C. PP. 221 - 226 'GEORGE TANSTETTER, ALSO KNOWN AS COLLIMITIUS, WAS A MEDICAL MAN AND MATHEMATICIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA WHO IN 1514 HAD EDITED PEURBACH'S TABLES OF ECLIPSES TOGETHER W. CONSIDERABLE BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS AS TO PAST MEN OF SCIENCE AT THAT UNIVERSITY... HE HIMSELF HAD BEEN ISSUING ANNUAL ASTROLOGICAL PREDICTIONS FOR 21 YEARS PAST. BUT HIS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LEARNED , SOBER AND RESTRAINED. ...':

      TANSTETTER [1482 - 1535] LECTURED AT VIENNA UNIVERSITY, ESPECIALLY KNOWN FOR 'CONTINUING THE REGIOMONTANUS TRADITION, EDITING THE PEURBACH TABLES ETC.' [SEE WEIL CATS NR 30, ITEM 150]: THIS VERY RARE PLAGUE TRACT IS CLEARLY NOT AN ASTRONOMICAL OR ASTROLOGICAL PREDICTION, BUT IS UMISTAKABLY OF A MEDICAL NATURE, TELLING WHAT PRECAUTIONS TO TAKE TO AVOID CONTRACTING THE DREADED AND FATAL DISEASE. TANSTETTER'S GUIDELINES INCLUDE ADVICE ON SANITATION OF THE HOUSE AND ALLEY, TOXIC AIR, FOOD & DRINK, AT THE END A REFERENCE TO A REMEDY 'ITEM FUER DAS HAUSGESIND MAG MA[N] WOL TEGLICH BRAUCHE DES DOCTORS STAINPEISS RECEPT DAS ER TRU=CKEN [VIZ. IN THE SENSE'OF 'PRESSING'] HAT LASSEN / VON FEIGEN / WEINRUETTEN / NUESSEN UND SALTZ.'. SEE OUR ENTRY UNDER STAINPEISS [WIENN, 1515]. FURTHER ON TANSTETTER SEE SCHOENBAUER, 'DAS MEDIZINISCHE WIEN', P. 72. 'NEBEN CUSPINIAN SIND ZU ERWAEHNEN GEORG COLLUNITIOS TANSTETTER, DER 1482 IN DER BAYRISCHEN STADT RAIN GEBOREN, IN INGOLSTADT STUDIERTE, 1503 SEINE VORLESUNGEN UEBER MATHEMATIK IN WIEN BEGANN UND DAS MEDIZINISCHE DOKTORAT ERLANGTE; ER WURDE 1510 KAISERLICHER LEIBARZT UND STARB 1535 IN WIENER-NEUSTADT ALS MATHEMATIKER UND ASTRONOM; ...'. IDEM, PP. 56 - 60 ON PLAGUE OUTBREAKS IN VIENNA AND GENERAL ADVICE ON SANITATION CURRENT AT THAT POINT IN TIME [AROUND 1500]: 'FERNHALTEN VOM VERKEHR, REINIGEN DER LUFT DURCH RAEUCHERWERK UND OEFFNEN DER FENSTER, REINIGEN DES KOERPERS DURCH ABFUEHRMITTEL UND MAESSIGES LEBEN. DIE PESTBEULEN SOLLEN MIT ZERTEILENDEN PFLASTERN, SCHROEPFKOEPFEN ODER MIT DEM GLUEHEISEN BEHANDELT WERDEN; SEHR WICHTIG IS DER RECHTZEITIGE ADERLASS. DIE WENDUNG ZUM BESSEREN ZEIGT STARKER SCHWEISS AN, DEN MAN DAHER KUENSTLICH HERVORRUFEN SOLL.':