ALPINUS, Prosper (1553-1617). De medicina Aegyptiorum. Venice: Francesco dei Franceschi 1591. 4 o (231 x 171 mm). Roman and italic types, woodcut initials, publisher's woodcut device on title, 5 text woodcuts, two of which full-page. (Title-page soiled, corners of some leaves dampstained, without last blank.) Modern calf, edges speckled blue (from earlier binding). Provenance : Hermann Koehler (library stamp), presumably the author of Handbuch der Materia medica , Gttingen 1876. FIRST EDITION, title in first state (see Mortimer). An important work on the practice of medicine in Egypt. "One of the earliest European studies of non-Western medicine. Alpini's work dealt primarily with contemporary (i.e. Turkish) practices observed during a three-year sojourn in Egypt. These included moxibustion--the production of counter-irritation by placing burning or heated material on the skin--which Alpini introduced into European medicine ... Alpini also mentioned coffee for the first time in this work" (Norman). Cushing A146; Garrison-Morton 6468; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 16; Heirs of Hippocrates 240 (1646 edn.); NLM/Durling 178; Osler 1796; Waller 12509; Wellcome 232; Norman 39.
ALPINUS, Prosper (1553-1617). De medicina Aegyptiorum. Venice: Francesco dei Franceschi 1591. 4 o (231 x 171 mm). Roman and italic types, woodcut initials, publisher's woodcut device on title, 5 text woodcuts, two of which full-page. (Title-page soiled, corners of some leaves dampstained, without last blank.) Modern calf, edges speckled blue (from earlier binding). Provenance : Hermann Koehler (library stamp), presumably the author of Handbuch der Materia medica , Gttingen 1876. FIRST EDITION, title in first state (see Mortimer). An important work on the practice of medicine in Egypt. "One of the earliest European studies of non-Western medicine. Alpini's work dealt primarily with contemporary (i.e. Turkish) practices observed during a three-year sojourn in Egypt. These included moxibustion--the production of counter-irritation by placing burning or heated material on the skin--which Alpini introduced into European medicine ... Alpini also mentioned coffee for the first time in this work" (Norman). Cushing A146; Garrison-Morton 6468; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 16; Heirs of Hippocrates 240 (1646 edn.); NLM/Durling 178; Osler 1796; Waller 12509; Wellcome 232; Norman 39.
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