Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 411

JEAN BAPTISTE VAN HELMONT (1577-1644) Deliramenta catarrhi; or, The incongruities, impossibilities, and absurdities couched under the vulgar opinion of defluxions. Printed by E. G. for William Lee 1650 [12] 75 pp. 18.4 cm.

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This is the only English edition of Helmont's treatise on catarrhal discharges and phlebotomy and was translated and adapted by Walter Charleton (see No. 526), a British physician. In it, Helmont opposes the popular views of his day regarding the uses of bloodletting, purgatives, and several other therapies then in vogue. He devotes a considerable portion of the book to a discussion of the Galenic theory of phlegm and mucus and presents his own views on these matters while refuting and criticizing the position of his contemporaries.

See Related Record(s): 526

Cited references: Cushing H238; Osler 2933; Waller 4304; Wellcome III, p. 242

Gift of John Martin, M.D.