Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 140

HIERONYMUS BRUNSCHWIG (ca. 1450-ca.1512) A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye or homely physick booke for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye. Arnold Birckman 1561 45 ll. 28.2 cm.

Brunschwig, a native of Strasbourg, traveled and practiced in Alsace, Swabia, Bavaria, Franconia, the Rhine countries. He was one of the most influential surgeons and pharmacists of his time and his books on surgery and distillation became very popular and widely read. He is best known as author of Cirurgia (1497), the first illustrated surgical treatise. The present work is the first English edition of his Thesaurus pauperum, which was first published in the 1512 edition of his Liber de arte distillandi. The book has here been translated by John Hollybush (fl. 1560) who is believed to have been a London printer and bookbinder. Brunschwig begins with a chapter on the "head and his partes" and proceeds through a multitude of diseases, ending with a description of what appears to be malaria, together with the recommended therapy.

Cited references: Cushing B817; Durling 757; Osler 2164; Waller 1576; Wellcome 1120

Gift of John Martin, M.D.