2 parts in 1 vol. in-folio (37 x 23 cm), [48], 1344, [54] pp; engraved portrait of Hippocrates (Aubry), engraved printer's mark on first title, woodcut printer's mark on second title. Greek-Latin parallel edition. (the portrait partially glued to an end-leaf) Title yellowed, pages 654-655 soiled, otherwise a very good copy. Bound as usual with: Oeconomia Hippocratis alphabeti serie distincta. Genève, Samuel Chouët, 1662. [8], 418 pp., woodcut printer's mark. (some foxing on the last lvs.) Gilt vellum PRIZE binding, with the arms of UTRECHT on both covers, soiled, first hinge broken
Classical philologists consider that many of the writings attributed to Hippocrates were in fact written by members of the Hippocratic School, of which he was one. Hippocrates himself is, by common consent, the greatest physician of all time, the Father of Medicine"" (Garrison-Morton, 13) Impressive Greek and Latin standard edition, with an extensive index, edited by the Metz physician Anutius Foesius (1528-1595), and dedicated to Cardinal Charles de Lorraine. Ref. Wellcome III, 269 ; Krivatsy 5621. ""The main text is reprinted page for page from the Foest edition printed in Frankfurt in 1620
