Tractatus de Fractura Calve sive Cranei

by Jacopo Berengario da Carpi

$60,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Bologna: Hieronymus de Benedictis, 1518. First edition of the first separate treatise on head injuries and their neurosurgical treatment. “The work originated in a dispute between Berengario 1460-1530 and some other physicians over the treatment of Lorenzo de’ Medici, who had suffered a skull fracture in battle. Berengario described several types of skull fractures and grouped the resulting lesions according

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.