Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 120

VALASCUS DE TARENTA (ca. 1382-ca. 1418) Practica, sive Philonium. Mathias Huss 1490 [2] cclxvii (misnumbered cclxxii) [1] ll. 31.5 cm.

Valascus, a Portuguese by birth, received his education at Montpellier and was one of the foremost teachers and practitioners in Europe near the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries. In the Philonium, first published in 1488, he presents a general textbook of medicine intended to cover all of medicine except surgery. In keeping with the traditional arrangement, a capite ad calcem, he discusses diseases of the head, respiratory system, intestinal tract, liver, spleen, kidneys and bladder, sex organs, fevers, and epidemic diseases.

Cited references: Goff V 7; Hain-Copinger 15251; Klebs 1010.3; Osler 7501; Wellcome 6420 (printed by J. Trechsel)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.