Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 682

DANIEL LECLERC (1652-1728) Histoire de la médecine. Aux depens de la Compagnie 1723 Nouvelle ed. [18] 820 [20] pp., [10] plates, fold. table. 25 cm.

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Preceded only by the works of Symphorien Champier and Marcello Donati in the sixteenth century, this was the most complete and reliable work on the history of medicine to follow and may still be consulted with profit. The first edition was published in 1696 and, after the second edition had been exhausted, Le Clerc found it expedient to write a third edition, which he updated to the middle of the seventeenth century. Among the ten finely engraved plates are depictions of Egyptian deities, Apollo, Hercules, Chiron Centaurus, Aesculapius, and Hippocrates.

Cited references: Cushing L6036; Garrison-Morton 6379 (1729 ed.); Osler 6036; Waller 14009 (1729 ed.); Wellcome III, p. 470

Gift of John Martin, M.D.