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HELMONT, Jan Baptista van

Deliramenta Catarrhi: or the incongruities, impossibilities, and absurdities couched under the vulgar opinion of defluxions
London
printed by E.G. for William Lee
1650
€120 - €180

Small 4to, [12]+ 75 pp, browning, water stains at the beginning of the volume. Translated by Walter Charleton. Later binding in 3/4 calf, marbled boards

"Ref. Krivatsy 5444 ; Waller 4304; Wellcome II, 242; Wing H1398. Helmont challenges Galenic theory that catarrh was the result of phlegm distilling in the head and condensing there, and argues that mucus of the nose and throat is produced by a vital spirit which protects the tissues from irritation. He also coined the word 'gas' and was an early pioneer in biochemistry"

Medicine