Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 378

PETRUS SEVERINUS (1542-1602) Idea medicinae philosophicae, fundamenta continens totius doctrinae Paracelsicae, Hippocraticae, & Galenicae. Ex officina Sixti Henricpetri 1571 [14] 416 [12] pp. 20.3 cm.

Severinus (or Soerensen), a precocious student, was born and received his early education in Denmark and his doctorate in France in 1571. He was devoted to the doctrines of Paracelsus, whom he supports in this rare book. Severinus extended Paracelsus' ideas concerning invisible agents of disease in the concept of pathologia animata.

Cited references: Durling 4231; Waller 9059; Wellcome 5954

Gift of John Martin, M.D.