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PARACELSUS, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus von Hohenheim (c. 1493-1541). Chirurgia vulnerum, cum recentium, tum veterum, ocultorum & manifestorum ulcerum, & c. , translated by Gerhard Dorn. Basle: Peter Perna, [1569].
PARACELSUS, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus von Hohenheim (c. 1493-1541). Chirurgia vulnerum, cum recentium, tum veterum, ocultorum & manifestorum ulcerum, & c. , translated by Gerhard Dorn. Basle: Peter Perna, [1569]. 8° (157 x 105mm). Woodcut initials. (Variable light spotting and browning, occasional light marking, some worming.) 20th-century vellum over pasteboard, yapp fore-edges, 20th-century red edges. FIRST LATIN EDITION, translated from the German by Gerhard Dorn, Paracelsus' most active advocate and promoter. 'Among Paracelsus' practical achievements was his management of wounds and chronic ulcers. These conditions were overtreated at the time, and Paracelsus' success lay in his conservative, noninterventionist approach, which was based upon his belief in natural healing power and mumia , an active principle in tissues. He thus continued the tradition of Theodoric Borgognoni of Lucca and his pupil Henry of Mondeville, both of whom had advocated ... the method of rara vulnerum medicatio (as Casare Magati named it in 1616). Chemical therapy had been used chiefly externally by the ancients, but Paracelsus recognized the superiority of chemicals taken internally over the traditional, mostly herbal, internal medicines. He imposed strict controls upon their use, however, holding that chemicals must be given only in moderate doses (in contrast to the toxic doses of mercury then used in treating syphilis) and only in detoxified form' ( DSB X, pp. 306-307). Adams P-268 (dating the work to 1575); NLM/Durling 3485; Wellcome I, 4766.