Praxeos seu de cognoscendis, praedicentis... affectibus homini incommodantibus. Basel, Conrad Waldkirch, 1609-1603. 2 volumes in-8, overlapping vellum, remnants of laces, title in ink on spine (contemporary binding).
Krivatsy, no. 9076-9077.
Original edition.
First attempt to classify diseases according to their symptoms by Felix Plater (Platerus) (1536-1614), a Basel physician who dissected more than 300 human bodies during his long career and made important observations in the field of pathological anatomy (cf. Garrison-Morton, no. 2195).
The first volume, containing the De functionum laesionibus, is in its second edition, dated 1609.
Freckles, several notebooks very heavily browned, mainly in the first volume. Worm galleries at the corner, head and foot of a few leaves.
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