Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 241

LEONHART FUCHS (1501-1566) Compendiaria ac succincta admodum in medendi artem eisagogh [Greek word transliterated]. [Per Johan. Secerium] 1531 [215] pp. 16.4 cm.

Fuchs was a German physician, professor of medicine at Tübingen, a practicing pharmacologist, a fervid Hippocratist, and writer of numerous works, the most famous of which is his herbal, De historia stirpium (see No. 243). The present work is one of Fuchs' earliest and is the first system of medicine to appear in print. A popular work, it was enlarged and revised a number of times and its title changed from "Compendius introduction" to "Method" by 1550. The book is evidence of Fuchs' great ability to organize knowledge and covers the theory of medicine as it was then known.

See Related Record(s): 243

Cited references: Durling 1672; Wellcome 2432 (Strasbourg ed., 1535)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.