Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 385

PROSPER ALPINI (1553-1617) De plantis Aegypti liber. Typis Pauli Frambotti Bipliopolae 1640 [xvi] 144, 4 [4] 5-54 [12] 80 pp., illus. 22.2 cm.

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While in Egypt, Alpini studied its plant life and this work is the result of his findings and observations. In this, the second edition, there are more than seventy full-page illustrations of Egyptian plants, among them the earliest representations of the coffee and cotton plants. This edition is the first to contain the notes and observations of Johann Vesling (see No. 476 ff.) who succeeded Alpini as director of the University's botanical garden. Also included in this work is Alpini's De balsamo in which are set forth, in the form of a dialogue between an Egyptian and a Hebrew physician, the merits and uses of balsam.

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Cited references: Durling 179 (1st ed., 1592); Osler 1799 (1st ed.); Wellcome 233 (1st ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.