Rivière

1674 · D6962 — Venice: apud Franciscum Brogiollum 1674. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio book 5 only 325 x 220mm. 12 159pp. 9 443pp. 21. Engraved woodcut printer’s device depicting Europa. Title printed in red and black. Tables. Double column. Some woodcut ornamental head- and tailpieces and initials. Later half vellum over marbled boards endpapers renewed light browning and foxing or dampstaining. Pictorial wood-engraved ex-libris by Leo Wyatt for Lord Norwich on pastedown. <br/><br/>Rivière’s extensive compendium of medicine. There was a parallell edition of Rivière’s Opera medica universa printed in Frankfurt of this same year Sumptibus Joannis Petri Zubrodt. This volume is book five in his extensive compendium of medicine with sections on physiology pathology semiotics preservation of health and therapeutics. Subjects dealt with include cancer haemorrhaging the amount of food required by a healthy individual the diagnostic significance of bloodshot eyes and the medical properties of various fruits nuts and vegetables. Rivière 1589-1665 professor at Montpellier was the first to introduce the Paracelsian iatro-chemistry or the internal use of metallic compounds to Montpellier and the first to note aortic stenosis. apud Franciscum Brogiollum hardcover books