Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 533

BERNARDINO GENGA (1620-1690) In Hippocratis Aphorismos ad chirurgiam spectantes. Typis Reu. Cam. Apost. 1694 [32] 494 pp., front., 1 plate (port.). 15.9 cm.

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Genga has here prepared an edition of those aphorisms of Hippocrates (see No. 1 ff.) which pertain to surgery. He opens the book with a lengthy discourse on the first aphorism. The aphorisms are given in both Latin and Italian with extensive commentary relating the aphorisms to clinical surgery.

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Cited references: Wellcome III, p. 103 (Bologna, 1717)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.