[Rarebooks] OFFER: THE POPE'S PHYSICIAN WELL AHEAD OF HIS TIME!!

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LANCISI, GIOVANNI MARIA; ASSALTUS, PETRUS, ED. ~OPERA : QUAE HACTENUS 
PRODIERUNT OMNIA; DISSERTATIONIBUS NONNULLIS ADHUC DUM INEDITIS 
LOCUPLETATA, & ab ipso auctore, recognita atque emendata. Collegit, ac in 
ordinem digessit Petrus Assaltus ...: ~Genevae : J.A. Cramer, 1718. 2 vols. 
in 1 (1090 in variaous pagings) : ill., etched folding plates, 22 cm. ~ 
FIRST EDITION, G. & M. 71. "Lancisi great Italian clinician was the first 
to describe cardiac syphilis; he was also notable as an epidemiologist, 
with a clear insight into the theory of contagion."  He noted that Malaria 
decreased when swamps were drained, and made the connection between swamps 
and mosquitoes, laying plans to drain swamps in order to prevent malaria. 
In our text he discusses the spread of disease by insect vectors, with 
which he was well acquainted.~ OCLC, 2 Locs. [GTU,   DRB], although there 
is a copy at the NLM. Welcome III P. 441, Heirs of Hippocrates 691, and a 
notable rarity. Original full calf, raised bands, gilt title piece, but 
although with all original blanks, without ownership signature or 
bookplate. The binding is well worn, corners bumped and worn, but still 
solid and serviceable.This copy lacks the portrait which by all  evidence 
was clearly never bound in. The book is completely unsophisticated and in 
its original state.  ~$2150.00~

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