PLATTER, FELIX. Observationum, in hominis affectibus plerisque, corpori et animo, functionum laesione, dolore, aliave molestia & vitio incommodantibus, libri tres. Basel: Ludwig Knig for Conrad Waldkirch, 1614. 8vo,contemporary limp vellum soiled, a little wear to lower cover; scattered marginalia. FIRST EDITION, containing Platter's observations of a wide variety of diseases, including many gynecological diseases, and mental illnesses, with detailed notes on their causes, which he sought in the physiological rather than the supernatural. He also investigated the contagion of diseases. The work includes the earliest known report of a case of infant death from hypertrophy of the thymus. Garrison-Morton 3789, 4511.1; NLM/Krivatsy 9073; Osler 3693; Wellcome I, 5089; NLM/Krivatsy 9073; Norman 1716.

细节

PLATTER, FELIX. Observationum, in hominis affectibus plerisque, corpori et animo, functionum laesione, dolore, aliave molestia & vitio incommodantibus, libri tres. Basel: Ludwig Knig for Conrad Waldkirch, 1614. 8vo,contemporary limp vellum soiled, a little wear to lower cover; scattered marginalia. FIRST EDITION, containing Platter's observations of a wide variety of diseases, including many gynecological diseases, and mental illnesses, with detailed notes on their causes, which he sought in the physiological rather than the supernatural. He also investigated the contagion of diseases. The work includes the earliest known report of a case of infant death from hypertrophy of the thymus. Garrison-Morton 3789, 4511.1; NLM/Krivatsy 9073; Osler 3693; Wellcome I, 5089; NLM/Krivatsy 9073; Norman 1716.

来源

Francis Petit, M.D. (1694 inscription on front endpaper); Haskell F. Norman (sale, Christie's New York, 15 June 1998, lot 726)