Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 207

PARACELSUS (1493-1541). Opus chyrurgicum. Strasbourg: Gedruckt bey Paulo Messerschmidt, 1564. [20] cccccxv pp; 31.4 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 205

This first of the larger collected editions of Paracelsus' works on surgery and medicine was edited by one of his pupils, Adam von Bodenstein (1528-1577). To it are added two tracts on syphilis, for which disease Paracelsus is credited with introducing mercury treatment.

Cited references: Durling 3464; Sudhoff 62

Gift of John Martin, M.D.