Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 188

BENEDETTO VITTORI (1481-1561) Opus theorice latitudinum medicine ad libros Tegni Galleni. In aedibus Benedicti Hectoris 1516 [1] xxviii[1] ll., tables. 31.2 cm.

Vittori, professor of philosophy and medicine at Padua and later Bologna, was chiefly interested in the theoretical and philosophical aspects of science and did not publish a large number of medical works. However his works were very popular and were reprinted numerous times, although they are now extremely rare and difficult to find. The present work is one of the first books on medical theory to be published during the Renaissance and is based on Galenic precepts. Vittori discusses the nature of illness, compares health with illness, explores the rationale of medical treatment.

Cited references: Durling 4666

Gift of John Martin, M.D.