Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 212

PARACELSUS (1493-1541). Von der Bergsucht oder Bergkranckheiten drey Bücher. [Dillingen: Durch Sebaldum Mayer], 1567. [7] 62 [2] ll; 20 cm.

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

This rare first edition of the first monograph devoted to the occupational diseases of miners and metallurgical workers appeared eleven years after Agricola's well-known treatise on mining, De re metallica, and was the result of Paracelsus' own observations while studying metallurgical operations at the Fugger mines in the Tirol.

Cited references: Durling 3476; Sudhoff 88; Wellcome 4762

Gift of John Martin, M.D.