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ARETEUS of Cappadocia

Aetiologica, simeiotica et therapeutica morborum acutorum & diuturnorum....

Augsburg
Georg Willer and David Franck
1603

€700 - €1.200

In-folio, [20], 446, [16] pp. Woodcut device on title. Printed in two columns in GREEK and Latin. Re-bound in half calf with recuperation of old material, red edges

The works of Areteus of Cappadocia, originally translated by Junius Paulus Crassus and published in Venice in 1552, are corrected here in Henisch's edition, using excerpts from Galen, Alexander Trallianus, and Paulus Aegineta. ""Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect"" (Garrison-Morton). See Garrison-Morton 22; Krivatsy 380. Scarce edition

Provenance:
bookplate Dr. F.A. Sondervorst

Greek Medicine