Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 3

HIPPOCRATES (ca. 460 B.C.-ca. 368 B.C.) Aphorismorum Hippocratis sectiones septem. Apud Seb. Gryphium 1543 318 [2] [64] pp. 11.7 cm.

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François Rabelais (ca. 1490-1553?), the French physician and noted humanist, is best known for Pantagruel and Gargantua --the comic and satirical masterpieces directed against the superstitions and pretenses of his day. Rabelais began his career as a member of the Franciscan order and was later transferred to the Benedictines whom he left without permission about 1530. He entered Montpellier to study medicine late in 1530 and by 1532 was physician to the Hôtel Dieu in Lyons. Subsequent to that, his activities included reinstatement as a Benedictine, teaching at Montpellier, and service as town physician at Metz and Lorraine. Rabelais compiled and edited the first edition of the present work while at Lyons in 1532. He was one of the first to lecture from Greek texts and, in the book's dedicatory letter to his good friend Geoffroy d'Estissac, Bishop of Maillezais, indicates that the translation was made from his own ancient text because existing Latin translations were filled with errors. The Greek text of the Aphorismi with its own special title page is added at the end of the book. The contents of the book also include Niccolò Leoniceno's (1428-1524) translation of Aphorismorum Hippocratis sectiones septem and Brasavola's (see No. 228) translation of Aphorismorum sectio octava translations of Praesagiorum libri tres and De ratione victus in morbis acutis, seu, De ptisana liber primus-[quartus] by Gulielmus Copus (ca. 1460-1532), a Swiss who studied medicine at Paris and was physician to Louis XII and Francis I; Andrea Brenta's (ca. 1454-ca. 1485) translation of De natura hominis; Leoniceno's translation of Galeni Ars medicinalis; and, Hippocrates' De medico, medicine officio liber, Liber de lege, and Liber de specie, acie, visuve, & opsios oculorum corrupta.

See Related Record(s): 228

Cited references: Cushing H339 (1545 ed.); Durling 2350; Osler 153; Waller 4513; Wellcome 3197