Salomon

1582 · M13446 — Vitaebergae:: Typis Zachariae Lehmani 1582. 1582. 16 cm. Small 8vo. 75 1 pp. Signatures: A-E A2 missigned A3; E7. Lacks E8 blank. Plain wrappers. Laid into quarter green morocco cloth sides folding box 23 cm. Occasional early ink marginalia. RARE: no record of copies found on market. First edition one of two known issues. VERY RARE & EARLY ACCOUNT ON PERSPIRATION CRYING & BLOOD. A classical account on perspiration crying and blood all fluids. O'Malley writes for the DSB "such then curious but rational problems as why boys ought not to be forbidden to cry why sobbing usually accompanies weeping" -- apparently referring to this work. Thorndike who notes the author's work on the classical writers Galen and Rasis notes further that he was not a physician who ascribed to the occult sciences: "he also discussed such questions as why boys should not be forbidden to cry why sobbing generally goes with tears. . ." p. 230. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy has an added 2 leaves marked as signature "-2" which is a preface by Paulo Alberto Paulus Albertus not available in this copy but supplied in facs. The text refers to bloody sweat noted by Stolberg "Modern medicine acknowledges such phenomenona as 'hematidrosis' but premodern accounts of bloody sweating may well have to be taken in a much wider sense including what physicians today would consider as bleeding disorders." -- Michael Stolberg "Sweat. Learned Concepts and Popular Perceptions 1500-1800" within: Manfred Horstmanshoff Helen King & Claus Zittel editors Blood Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe Brill 2012 p. 509. Alberti born in 1540 Naumburg Germany a year later his father died. He and his mother relocated to Nuremberg 1541. Remarkably the city paid for Alberti's education including his doctoral studies at the University of Wittenberg 1574 rising to become Professor of Philosophy and Physics in Wittenberg then Professor of Medicine and in 1582 becoming physician to Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Saxony. He last residence was in Dresden where he passed away. He wrote tracts on the pancreas 1578 on the lacrimal apparatus De Lacrimis 1581. In 1585 he published Historia plerarunque partium humani corporis membratim scripta et in usum tyronum retractatius edita Vitaebergae excudebant Haeredes Iohannis Cratonis. ". . . some years later the German anatomist Salomon Alberti 1540–1600 published his studies of the lacrimal apparatus in a volume entitled De Lacrimis." "Initially tears were considered to be more or less similar in composition to other body fluids in particular sweat and urine." -- Ad Vingerhoets Why Only Humans Weep: Unravelling the Mysteries of Tears 2013 pp. 51 but does not mention this text. -- DSB. REFERENCES: Dictionary of Scientific Biography I p. 98 O'Malley; Durling 76. See: Hans Theodor Koch: Die Wittenberger Medizinische Fakultat 1502-1652 - Ein biobibliographischer Uberblick pp. 299-300 in Stefan Oehmig Medizin und Sozialwesen in Mitteldeutschland zur Reformationszeit Leipzig 2007; Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig; August Hirsch: Biographisches Lexikon 1884 Bd. 1 p 85; Fritz Roth: Restlose Auswertungen von Leichenpredigten fur genealogische und kulturhistorische Zwecke. Selbstverlag 1976 Bd. 9 p. 188; Lynn Thorndike A History of Magic and Experimental Science The Sixteenth Century VI New York 1941 pp. 229–230. Bibliotheque nationale France Catalogue general des livres imprimes de la Bibliotheque Nationale Paris 1897 p. 518. FFrye C188 Typis Zachariae Lehmani, 1582. hardcover books