Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 169.51

JéRôME DE MONTEUX (ca. 1495-1560) Opuscula iuuenilia. Apud Ioan. Tornaesium et Gul. Gazeium. 1556 First Edition. [iix], 32p. & 56p. & 56p. & 38, [2]p. & 122, [2], [4 blank], [16]p. 17 cm.

[Title of v. 1 from caption; v. 2-5 have separate title pages. Woodcuts: historiated title border (general title), typographic title borders (v. 2-5), author’s coat of arms (full-page); metalcuts: floriated initials. Includes In laudem artis medicae Erasmi Rot. declamatio (v. 3, p. 28-56). Separate indexes and errata for each work at end of v. 5. ] First edition of all 5 parts. The first is a farrago of medical and scientific observations and questions stemming from the author’s youthful tour in the region of Grenoble in 1518. The second collects three hundred classical medical axioms, while the third organizes sayings on the art and philosophy of medicine, on various diseases and on physicians themselves, concluding with Erasmus’ Oration in Praise of Medicine. The fourth treats the practice of medicine. By far the longest, the final part deals with general medicine: definitions, disciplines, types of patients, humors, and so on. Signature of (?)Dellglis dated 1642 at the head of the index.

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Cited references: Wellcome I #4436 ; Waller 6654 ; NLM 16th C. #3282

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