BOERHAAVE, Hermann. Two Works including Institutiones Mediciae in usus annuae Exercitationis Domestecos.
Pub. LUGDUNI BATAVORUM: Apud Joh. & Herm. Verbeek, Cornelium Haak et ROTTERODAMI, Apud Joan. Dan Beman, MDCCXLVl (1745) Title, [7] leaves, 548 pp., [18] leaves.
Also, Aphorismi de Cognoscendis et Curandis Morbis.
Pub. LUGDUNI BATAVORUM: Therorum Hoak, Samuel Luchtmaas, Joh. et Herm. Verbeek et ROTTERODAMI Joh. Dan. Bemaa, 1737. Title, [3] leaves, 370 pp. [12] l2 leaves.
Institutiones Medicae was responsible, more than any other work for establishing the study of physiology as an academic discipline. In 1701, at the age of thirty-three, Boerhaave (1668-1738) was appointed lecturer in medicine by the University of Leiden. Seven years later his lectures were published in the present book which is considered to be the first textbook of physiology and a medical classic. It is divided into four sections: physiology, pathology, hygiene and therapeutics.
Both bound in very similar full leather with gilt decorated spines, reasonable aging wear and bumps.
Titles a little foxed, but predominantly good condition.
Aphorismi with book plate and signature of S. Sandford surgeon 1760. From the library of Dr Charles Reeves of Melbourne (1827-1880) with his signature and embossed stamp. Bookplate: Ex Libris Anatomica K.F. Russell. (154x95mm)



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