LE POIS, Nicolas.

by Nicolas Le Pois

£4,500 · Offered by Sokol Books

A very good copy of the second edition of this bestselling treatise on diagnostics by Le Pois. The French Nicolas Le Pois (also known as Nicolaus Piso, 1527-1587) was born at Nancy, and he is regarded as one of the best physicians of the 16th century. After studying Medicine in Paris under the celebrated Jacobus Sylvius (1478-1555), he succeeded his brother Anthony as physician to Charles III, duke of Lorraine, in 1578. The beautiful oval portrait, depicting Le Pois at 52 years of age in 1579, was realised by the French engraver, painter, sculptor and Pierre Woeiriot de Bouzey (c. 1532 1596). De cognoscendis et curandis praecipue internis humani corporis morbis is Le Pois chief work, which he realised collecting information from the best medical books written from Hippocrates to his day and integrating his own personal experience. Interestingly, the list of his sources (at the beginning) includes the contemporary Parisian academics Duretus, Pietreus, Gormelen, Rochon, Marescot whose works were unpublished; Lepois states we hope, God willing, that their numerous and diverse works will soon be published . The author originally composed this treatise for his two sons, Christian and Charles, as a useful guide for their medical studies. However, after reading the manuscript, his friend and celebrated physician Anutius Foesius (1528-1595) convinced him to publish it. The first edition, printed in Frankfurt in 1580, was a great success. Le Pois dedicates special attention to the ide

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