MERCURIALE, De venenis et morbis venenosis tractatus, 1584
MERCURIALE, Geronimo || SCHELIGA, Albert.
De venenis et morbis venenosis tractatus.
Francfort, Andreae Wecheli, 1584.
12mo (153x92 mm), (8)-168-(8) pages. binding : XXth century full vellum, flat spine.
Edition published same year as the first edition in Venice.
Pioneering work on knowledge on poisons.
Some period handwritten annotations in the margins.
references: 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. "].
Price : 500 €
