Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 217

TOMASO GIUNTA (1494-1566) De balneis omnia quae extant apud Graecos, Latinos, et Arabas. Apud Juntas 1553 14, 497 ll., illus. 30.4 cm.

This work is one of the most complete collections on baths and bathing compiled during the sixteenth century, containing texts by more than seventy authors among whom are Hippocrates, Avicenna, Averroës, Galen, Gesner, Cardano, Savonarola, Fuchs, d'Abano, and Maimonides. Many of these works are printed here for the first and only time so that this volume provides a comprehensive picture of the state of balneology, then at the height of its popularity. The five woodcuts in the work show the plan of a spa, part of the baths at Pfeffers in Switzerland, the baths of Plombière, a map of the baths around Venice and Trieste, and a view of the interior of a Roman bath.

Cited references: Cushing D88; Durling 1101; Garrison-Morton 1986; Osler 1902; Wellcome 652

Gift of John Martin, M.D.