Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 462

LAZARE RIVIèRE (1589-1655) Opera medica universa. Sumptibus Antonii Cellier 1672 [12] 186 [10] [4] 348 [27] [4] [5] pp., front. (port.). 35.3 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 461

Rivière's Opera was very successful and continued to be reissued until well into the eighteenth century. His clear style, logical reasoning and presentation contributed greatly to the wide acclaim his work received. There are three works in this edition of his Opera: Institutionum medicarum, libri quinque, 1672; Praxis medica cum theoria (see No. 461), 1671; and Observationum medicarum (see No. 461), 1672. Institutionum medicarum was arranged in five books covering physiology, pathology, symptomatology, health and hygiene, and therapeutics. In addition, he has included another two hundred case histories contributed by thirteen colleagues and as well a group of thirty-seven case histories of rare diseases and conditions which he had been successful in curing.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2727 (1674 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.