Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 760

JOHANN GEORG WALTHER (fl. 1670) Sylva medica opulentissima. Sumptibus Friderici Arnsti; Typis Andreae Richteri 1679 [16] 1612 [32] pp., front. (port.). 19.9 cm.

Walther, a physician of Liegnitz, a city in southern Germany, is known chiefly for this large dictionary. The volume lists diseases in alphabetical order, with extensive references to the printed literature on diseases of both a medical and surgical nature. There is a lengthy index for the authors referred to and the diseases discussed. Long sections are devoted to dentistry and cardiac pathology, including ventricular "anguish."

Cited references: Waller 19158

Gift of John Martin, M.D.