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Medicina - Castellani, Luigi Francesco

On the non-existence of consumptive contagion, 1777

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194x132 mm
Mantua, for the heir of Alberto Pazzoni, royal-ducal printer, 1777. In-8°, contemporary parchment binding, title on gilt label on spine, edges coloured with red spray; pp. [8], 142, [2]. Woodcut initials and headpieces. Engraving mark on the front. (medallion with the inscription "Salus Aug."). Light traces of use on the binding, with small wormholes on the spine. Fairly clean and crisp leaves, with occasional foxing and marginal browning. § Together in the lot De Gorter J., De perspiratione insensibili. Editio tertia italica. [...] atque Commentariis in omnes Aphorismos staticos Sanctorii adornatam , Patavii, typis Seminarii: apud Joannem Manfrè, 1766. In-4° (232x175 mm); binding. Contemporary, full parchment, with a smooth spine and gilt title on a colored paper board edged with gilt thread, coloured edges with red and green spots; black title page with a large woodcut device (phoenix and motto: Post fata resurgo); three plates; finely woodcut headpieces, endpapers, and initials; Latin text. Very light peeling on the back cover, small tear in the parchment at the lower rear corner (repaired); traces of wormholes at the lower corners of the first five leaves (repaired), occasional foxing on some leaves.

Specialist Notes

Original and unique edition of this work by Luigi Francesco Castellani (1727-1794), a doctor, native of Sermide (Mn); in it the Author refutes, through solid clinical case studies, the theories that from Galen to Van Swieten declared tuberculosis to be a contagious disease. Thus De Renzi (514): "Luigi Francesco Castellani… tries to eradicate from the minds of the common people a deep-rooted error, by which many miserable sick people were defrauded of necessary help, and almost abandoned to the mercy of their martyrdom..." § Little known, interesting treatise on perspirations and secretions edited by Dr. Joannes de Gorter (1689-1762). The work includes: the printer's notice to the reader, the prefaces, the index, the text De Perspiratione insensibili tractatus, divided into XVIII chapters; then, to follow, the text De insensibili perspiratione aphorismi cum eorum scholiis; the Index and approval.

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