Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 364.9

HIERONYMUS FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE (ca. 1533-1619) Pentateuchos cheirurgicum Hieronymi Fabricii ab Aquapendente, medici et cheirurgi clarissimi : publicis in Academia Patauina lectionibus ab auctore propositum / iam verò, contractiore paullò formâ, capitibus distinctum, lucique datum, opera Iohannis Hartmanni Beyeri ... ; indices novo operi vbique adiecti sunt marginales locupletissimi, hosque praeter alij duo, capitum alter singulorum librorum, alter rerum alphabeticus. Impensis Petri Fischeri 1592 First edition. [16], 554, [6] p. 19 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 365

The first of Fabricius’ surgical works to be published: it was more than twenty years later that the Operationes Chirurgicae was published in Venice. “The Pentateuchos are primarily devoted to the description of tumours, wounds, ulcers and fistulas, fractures and dislocations…Fabrici’s surgical works have not yet been studied in any detail…yet the books had great success and went through many editions in many languages; the versification of the first book of the Pentateuchos by Antonio Filippo Ciucci (Rome, 1653) can be taken as an exemplar of Fabrici’s fame as a surgeon” DSB. The text was edited by Beyer from notes taken at Fabricius’ lectures and was published apparently without the latter’s consent. Beyer became Bürgermeister of Frankfurt in 1614: he practiced as a doctor, wrote on mathematics (including one of the earliest books on decimal arithmetic), and corresponded with Kepler.

Cited references: Durling, 1416: Wellcome I, 2120

Gift of John Martin, M.D.