Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 375

JOANNES DONATUS SANTORUS (fl. 1590) Epistolarum medicinalium libri septem. Ex typographia Stelliolae, sumptibus Sipionis Ricii 1596 [12] 607 [2] pp. 20.3 cm.

Comparatively few medical texts printed in Naples have come down to us. This work by a Neapolitan physician, dedicated to the Cardinal Archbishop of Naples, consists of a series of letters from the author to medical colleagues concerning fevers, purgatives, the humors, malignancy, and a variety of other topics.