MERCURIALE, De venenis et morbis venenosis tractatus, 1584
MERCURIALE, Geronimo || SCHELIGA, Albert.
De venenis et morbis venenosis tractatus.
Francfort, Andreae Wecheli, 1584.
Un volume in-12 (153x92 mm), (8)-168-(8) pages. reliure : Plein vélin du XXe siècle, dos lisse.
Édition qui jouxte l'édition originale à Venise au format in quarto.
Retranscription des enseignements de Mercuriale à l'Université de Padoue sur la question des poisons, par Wojciech Szeliga (i.e. Albert Scheliga), un étudiant en médecine de Varsovie à qui Mercuriale avait demander de compiler ses cours.
Un travail pionnier sur la connaissance des poisons.
Quelques annotations manuscrites d'époque dans les marges.
références: Anita Magowska [Toxicol rep., 2021 :"The first lectures on poisons and their effects in the human body were given by Girolamo Mercuriale (1530–1606) at the University of Padua, based on the treatises of Galen, Aetius, Scribonius the Elder, Pliny, Avezoar and Avicenna. The systematizing of knowledge on poisons was such pioneering work, that Mercuriale asked Wojciech Szeliga (in Latin: Albert Scheliga, died 1585), a medicine student from Warsaw, to write down and compile the lectures, and in accordance with the then customs published them under his own name. This is how the textbook ‘De venenis et morbis venenosis tractatus locupletissimi’ was created in 1584 by Szeliga. He described the effects of poisons patterned on Mercurialis, i.e., in terms of the humoral pathology as systemic diseases caused by poisoning one of the humours, usually blood. "].
Prix : 500 €
