Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 119

SIGISMONDO POLCASTRO (ca. 1379?-1473) Clarissimi philosophi ac medici Sigismondi de Porchastris q[uestio] de restauratio[n]e humidi feliciter incipit. Per Peregrinum Bonon[iensem] 1490 Second and final edition. [6] ll. 32 cm.

[Alternate title: De restauratione humidi. Alternate author names: Sigismundus de Polcastris or sigismundus de Porc(h)astris. Publisher identified as Peregrinus de Pasqualibus by Reichling.] Polcastro taught medicine and philosophy at Padua for some fifty years, where he was a contemporary of Giovanni Michele Savonarola (1384? – 1462?). In this medical examination, which was first published at Padua in 1473, Polcastro explores the pathological and psychological influence of the kinds, sources, functions, and proportions of various types of bodily fluids and secretions. A virtual string of typographic contractions and abbreviations set out individual case histories; in addition to these, he discusses therapeutic, general diagnostic, and remedial principles. Polcastro does not hesitate to freely cite such authors as Aristotle, Avicenna, and Galen.

Cited references: Cushing, Incunabula 122; Goff P 936; Klebs 791.2

Gift of John Martin, M.D.