ABANO || PARACELSE, Traicté des venins, 1593

ABANO, Pierre (d') || PARACELSE.

Traicté des venins.

Lyon, Jean Huguetan, 1593.

24mo(118x77mm), 162-(9) pages. binding : Later old full vellum. Title page repaired.

First publication in French of the treatise De Venenis eorumque remediis liber attributed to Peter of Abano (or Petrus de Abano), a famous Italian physician and philosopher of the 13th century.
It contains short descriptions of various poisons and venoms, more or less strange: hemlock, mandrake, spider bite, cat brain, deer tail... As well as the means of treating them, starting with the use of the Bezoar, which is the subject of a dedicated chapter.

Lazare Boet, the translator, adds for the first time in French, Paracelsus' treatise on the virtues and marvelous properties of worms, serpents, spiders, toads, and dunces.

references: Henri Van Hoof ["Notes pour une histoire de la traduction pharmaceutique" : "Lazare Boet mit en français le 'De Venenis eorumque remediis liber' (Traité des venins, 1593) de Pierre d’Abano, médecin et alchimiste de Padoue [...] . Paracelse trouva des interprètes en Jean Boiron, marchand lyonnais, pour son 'Traité du vitriol' (1581) et en Lazare Boet pour son 'Traité des vertus et propriétés merveilleuses des vers, serpens, araignes, crapaux et cancres' (1593)."].

provenance: Bookplate François Moutier.

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