Best of the best. Medical old prints.

Best of the best.

Medical old prints.

BURGHART, Gottfried Heinrich

ZUM ALLGEMEINEN GEBRAUCH WOHLEINGERICHTETE DESTILLIER-KUNST.

Breslau (Wrocław), Korn, 1736, 8 k., P. 402.19 cards (Register); 6 sheets of tables; size 10.5x17.5 cm.

The first edition of the work of the Wrocław doctor Burghart Heinrich Gottfried (1705-1771), published in Wrocław, covering the power of recipes and recipes, from the child's play of widely understood medicine, pharmacy, but also alchemy, goldsmithing and household.

The work is divided into 3 parts:

In the first part, we find the necessary equipment needed in the distillation processes.

The second describes 12 chemical processes, thanks to which you can prepare, for example, distilled water, brandy, water of life "Aquaviate", rose oil, other oils and essences.

The third section describes 40 recipes with sugar as the main ingredient, including preserves, marmalades, juices, syrups, etc.

The whole is completed by six tables that show alchemical symbols, furnaces and equipment that was needed for the above-described processes.

The entries include: amber, fire powder - the precursor of matches, opium, pills, tobacco, wines, medicines, elixirs, alcohol, including for various ailments, etc. the table of contents consists of almost 40 pages

HARD PERIOD PARCH BINDING

GOOD CONDITION/ no pages: 187-192, 207/208, 383/384 and 387/388, slight traces of an insect, a slight pale trace of flooding the margin on the initial pages, although the copy is well preserved

GALENUS (GALENO)

EPITOME GALENI PERGAMENI OPERUM, IN QUATUOR PARTES DIGESTA...: PER AND. LACUNAM COLLECTA 

mz. pergam. antica, dorso a cordoni con tit. ms.,

Basileae (Bazylea) 1551, apudMich.Isingrinium, 4 k., 1298 column; pic in text; format 20.5x31cm

The "original edition" of this compendium of a work by Galen, published by Andrea Lacuna or Laguna (1499-1559), a famous physician from Segovia known as the "Spanish Galeno".

Galen, actually Claudius Galenus (born around 130, died 200 CE) - a Roman physician of Greek origin, anatomist, gifted researcher and writer, one of the most eminent ancient physicians, exerted a huge influence on the development of medical science in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Very rare!

HARD SEMI-PARING LUMINAIRES, XIX-CENTURY, ON THE BACK, TWO COLORED SLIDES WITH A GOLDEN TITLE, DECORATIVE PLASTER IN THE SO-CALLED. PEACOCK'S EYE, CARD CUT COLORED

VERY GOOD CONDITION numerous additions, underlines and marginalia from the period, VERY NICE COPY

Provenance: Sstemp of "Biblioteka Ordyn. Zamoyskiej. Duplikat wymieniony".

Biblioteka Ordyn. Zamoyskiej : Library of the Zamość Estate (BOZ) - a library existing in the years 1811–1944 in the Blue Palace in Warsaw. Its founder was the ordinate of Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski. It was partially destroyed on September 25, 1939 during a fire in the palace after a bombardment during the defense of Warsaw. After intentional arson by the Germans on September 8, 1944, it was almost completely destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising. About 1,800 volumes have been saved from the entire book collection. The last ordinate, Jan Tomasz Zamoyski, handed over the surviving fragment of the Municipal Security Office after World War II as a perpetual deposit to the National Library.

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MICHAELIS ALOYSII SINAPII

ABSURDA VERA SIVE PARADOXA MEDICA QUORUM … 1686

Pars I Theoremata et quaestiones controversas varias quae hodie Neotericis cum Galenicis intercedunt proponit cum dissertatione nova.

Pars II Occasione morborum certorum Septentrionalium easdem quaestiones controversas continuat cum dissertatione de falso titulo sive falsa existentia. morbi gallici.

Pars III continet tractatum de vanitate, falsitate et incertudine aphoris. Hippocratis. ...

Genevae 1697, pp (12), 116; (8), 114, (6); (12), 195; format: 11 x 18 cm.

The work of Michał Alojzy Synapius, the doctor chancellor Radziwiłł. The first part is dedicated to J. K. Lubomirski, the author argues here with Galen's medical claims, including his theories about humor and temperaments.

The second part is of a more practical nature, and we can also find medical information about Poland, e.g. about the medicine of the Cossacks and Tatars, about the tangle, and about the use and abuse of alcohol for treatment.

Giedroyć. in the work "Biographical and bibliographic sources to the history of medicine in old Poland." published in 1911, he writes: "And so as to the causes of the tangling, he examines those given by various authors and does not agree with them. he opposed theories that it was caused by river properties or that it was caused by faulty structure of the skin glands. He believes, however, that it is caused by climatic conditions, the abuse of vodka, an excess of meat dishes and diet, and the best medicine is borscht. "

The section On charms, in which the author states, "that he himself saw in Lithuania those who had the power to harm other people and animals" [also after Giedroyc] is worth mentioning. There are also practical recommendations on how to cure various diseases, e.g. scurvy or runny nose, and finally interesting recipes, e.g. vodka for everything, or mulled wine with egg yolk, sugar and general Czarnecki's roots? Or a Moscow recipe for medicinal use of tea.

The end of the third section, dedicated to Jan III Sobieski, is a testimony to the benefits of pills prepared from gold and other substances in Vienna by doctor Laska.

The final third is a critical review of the 83 aphorisms of Hippocrates.

The Estreicher notes this old print, but gives no known copy!

In Poland, Estreicher records two copies with a similar title from 1693: "Absurda vera, occasione potissimarū quarundam controversiarum: quae Neotericis, cum Galenicis intercedunt: Orbi curioso Medicorum, in compendio denuo exhibita, authore Michaele Aloysio Sinapio v. Senfft. Ungar. Phil. et Medic. D. Celsissimi Principis Radzievilii M. D. Lithuaniae Archi-Cancellarij, personae et aulae medico "in the Krasiński library, which was burnt in 1944 and in the Zamojski family, which was mostly destroyed.

Very rare!

AN AGE HARD PERGAMN BINDING

GOOD CONDITION / set of pages, browning of paper, here and there traces of old folds of corners

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