GALATHEAU, Dissertation sur la Digestion de l'Estomach, 1675
GALATHEAU, Pierre de.
Dissertation sur la Digestion de l'Estomach, touchant l'humeur acide.
Paris, François Muguet, 1675.
12mo (158x88 mm), 116-(2) pages. binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in six compartments. Little wormholes in the inner margin on few leaves. Upper cap of volume 2 finely repaired.
First edition of this scarce work of gastroenterology.
Not in the usual bibliographies (Osler, Heirs, Waller, Cole, Morton, Dezeimeris, ......).
Portal in his dictionary of anatomy (1770) mentions an edition of 1676. He says of this work that it is not very interesting, Galatheau following the system of Willis on digestion.
Traces of this work can also be found in the correspondence of Pierre Bayle:
"There is a doctor from Bourdeaux named Mr Galatheau who I was told was from Religion, who had a Treatise on Digestion printed foods where he fights the opinion of the moderns who want it to be done by an acid humor whose sharp parts do what strong water produces in metals.".
Price : 900 €