FORESTUS, Petrus.

by Petrus Forestus

£3,750 · Offered by Sokol Books

.A rare and important complete set of this epic set of case notes and cures, the thirty-two books of the Observationes et curationes, with an additional two works on surgery, by the Dutch Hippocrates Pieter van Foreest (1521-97), aka Forestus. First published from 1584, these were issued separately and so appear here as mixed editions, but it is extremely rare to find a complete set, especially in such good condition and in the original bindings. [Forestus s] writing combines scholarly precision with a liveliness of description that few of his contemporaries can match. He portrays the humour of the world as well as its sorrows, and his sympathy for all those caught up in an age of war and destruction, not least in his native Netherlands, shines through his pages (Vivien Nutton, Peter Van Foreest in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 72.1 (2017), p. 88). . . ..Containing I: van Foreest s three works on fevers, the last of which is on plagues. II: on conditions affecting the head, and of the eyes, nose, tongue, teeth, etc. III: on the heart, liver, stomach, and intestines. IV: on the kidneys and bladder, with Johannes Heurnius s (1543-1601) stoical treatise on human happiness (De humana felicitate), on male genitalia, and women s diseases. V: on arthritis and other diseases affecting the extremities, on poisons and cosmetics, and syphilis. VI: two works on surgical procedures, the first on tumours and the second on wounds, ulcers, fractures and dislocations

• Binding: Hardcover

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