Veterum medicorum opuscula.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1529-1574.

48 works in 14 volumes ; (8vo)

A collection of medical works in Latin.

The original owner has inserted a table of contents at the beginning of each volume written in a sixteenth-century hand. The set is now uniformly bound in vellum with the arms of Pope Pius VI [1717-09] in gold on the backs.

The autograph of Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford [1766-1827], 'ex libris Comitis Guilford', and his book-stamp is found in most of the volumes. The works marked * in the list of contents which follows have the signature of Achilles Pirmin Gasser [1505-77] of Lindau, an eminent physician and writer of his time.

I. *Scribonius Largus. De compositione medicamentorum. 1529. Galen. Dissectionis venarum arteriarumque commentarium. 1529.*--De curandi ratione per sanguinis missionem. 1529.--II. Carvinus, J. De sanguine. 1562. Dunus, T. Nova constitutio artis revellendi. [1560]--III. Harchies, J. ab. Enchiridion medicum simplicium pharmacorum. 1573. Henisch, G. Enchiridion medicinae. 1573. Monardes, N. De simplicibus medicamentis ex Occidentali India. 1574. Orta, G. ab. Aromatum et simplicium aliquot ... historia. 1574. Sylvius, J. Methodus medicamenta componendi. 1548.--IV. Austrius, S. De infantium ... morborum ... dignotione. 1540. Caesarius, J. In hoc opusculo continentur ... libri tres. 1534. Fiera, B. Coena. [1530] Massaria, D. De ponderibus ac mensuris. [ca. 1530]--V. Pictorius, G. Medicinae tam simplices quam compositae. [1560]--Physicarum quaestionum centuriae tres. [1568]--Opera nova. [1569]--Regulae universales. 1565.--VI. Valla, G. De natura partium animalium. 1529.--De universi corporis purgatione. 1529.--VII. *Biesius, N. De methodo medicinae. 1564. Lommius, J. Medicinalium observationum libri tres. 1560. *Montuus, S. Annotatiunculae. 1533.--VIII. *Merenda, J.P. Evacuandi ratio. [1547] Gesner, C. Libellus de lacte. [1541] Rulandus, M. Hydriatrice. 1568. Besson, J. De absoluta ratione extrahendi olea. 1559. Suardus, C. Dogma de putredine. [1535?] Marianus Sanctus, Barolitanus. Digressio de putredine. [1535]--IX. *Manfredi, H. de. De medicis et infirmis. 1530. Tanstetter, G.C. Artificium de applicatione astrologiae. 1531. Talpa, P. Empiricus. 1563. Paracelsus. De vita longa. [1562]--X. Caius, J. De medendi methodo. 1544. Trissinus, A. Problematum medicinalium ... libri sex 1547. *Crato von Crafftheim, J. In C. Galeni ... libros Methodi therapeutices. 1563.--XI. *Sylvius, J. De morbi articularii curatione. 1565. Ducret, T. De arthritide. 1575.--XII. Oribasius Sardianus. Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis. 1535. *Nonnus, T. De omnium particularium morborum curatione. 1568.--XIII. Ficinus, M. De studiosorum tuenda sanitate. 1569. Gesner, C. Sanitatis tuendae praecepta. [1556] Gazius, A. Aerarium sanitatis. [1546] Eobanus Hessus, E. Saluberrima bonae valetudinis tuendae praecepta. 1568. Bernardus de Gordonio. De conservatione vitae. 1570.--XIV. *Psellus. De victus ratione. [1529] Manardus, J. Medicinales epistolae. 1529. Puteanus, G. Joannis Mesue ... defensio. 1537.