Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 378.5

JOSEPH DU CHESNE (ca. 1544-1609) Tetras gravissimorum totius capitis affectuum. Typis Pauli Egenolphi, typogr. acad. 1606 First edition. [24], 488, [16] p. 17 cm.

A French physician and follower of Paracelsus (Heirs 205), Du Chesne is mostly remembered for his alchemical theories and being the first to introduce Paracelsus’s antimonial remedies to France. This extensive work consists of discussions of Epilepsy, Vertigo, Apoplexy and Paralysis.

See Related Record(s): 378.6 378.7

Cited references: Krivatsy, 3472, Osler, 3749 (1617 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.