Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 261

GUILLAUME RONDELET (1507-1566) Methodus curandorum omnium morborum corporis humani. Apud Jacobum Maceum [ca. 1567] [702] ll. 16.6 cm.

Rondelet was an active and successful physician and teacher on the faculty of the University of Montpellier where he also served as chancellor during the last ten years of his life. He is perhaps best known for his De piscibus marinis (1554), a noteworthy contribution to modern biology and expression of Rondelet's great interest in ichthyology. The majority of his published medical works were on therapeutics and the materia medica. However, the bulk of his scientific and anatomical works were never published because his friend and biographer, Laurent Joubert (see No. 350), was unable to find a publisher willing to undertake the expense of publishing Rondelet's considerable writings. The present work is a lengthy treatise on numerous diseases, injuries, and fevers, and includes instructions for compounding suitable remedies. Rondelet infrequently refers to other authors so it is highly likely that this is an original work. As is so often found in works of this period, considerable attention is given to the diagnosis and treatment of worms, which were common because of the poor sanitary conditions of that day.

See Related Record(s): 350

Cited references: Cushing R230 (1575 ed.); Durling 3927; Osler 3832 (1576 ed.); Waller 8157 (1570 ed.); Wellcome 5552 (1570 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.