Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 465

JAN VAN BEVERWIJCK (1594-1647) Schat der gesontheyt. Voor Matthias Havius, gedruckt by Hendrick van Esch 1638 2nd ed. 778 pp., illus. 14.3 cm.

This small book gives a great deal of advice for the preservation of health in the form of poems, quotations from the ancients, and philosophical essays. Beverwijck, a Dutch physician whose mother was a relative of Vesalius (see No. 280 ff.), wrote letters containing various medical and philosophical questions to various distinguished contemporaries (such as Descartes) and published their replies along with his letters. Although Beverwijck wrote many books, this was his most popular and it went through nine editions. The interest of this book is not in its value to the history of medicine however, but in its numerous emblematic copperplate illustrations by the Dutch poet Jakob Cats (1577-1666).

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