The Practica of Gianmatteo Ferrari da Gradi / by Arnold C. Klebs.

  • Arnold Klebs
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[1924]
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Credit: The Practica of Gianmatteo Ferrari da Gradi / by Arnold C. Klebs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Giov. Arcolani, Giov. Gringelli, Alois and Francisco Busco, Pietro de la Trinitate, Blasio Astariis are also re- _ ferred to, so that Gatinaria’s book forms an indispensable guide to ie avia school of his time. In his chosen field of therapeutics he _ impresses one distinctly as a modern and he has his marked place in the evolution of thought and practice. He merits decidedly more attention than is given him in modern historical textbooks. Gatinaria’s Practica appears in print only some years after his death*. From 1504, when the first edition appeared in Lyon, il 1659, we can count twenty editions of the book, ten of them rench presses, mostly at Lyon, seven from Italian presses (only one from Pavia 1509) and three from Basel and Frankfurt. In most of these editions this Practica is accompanied by other ti gs form the pen of some of Gatinaria’s colleagues at Pavia: lasio de’Astariis and Cesare Landulfo on fevers. Also he syphilis tract of Sebastiano d Aquila is added sometimes. Besides these editions Jacobus Sylvius is responsible for two others in a combination with Galenic therapeutics (Paris 1545 and Lyon 1549). René Moreau, in his life of Sylvius (Paris 1561), although he describes him as the “maximus osor* of Arabic | | od dc, has to admit that nine hundred copies of this book were sold in a few days. At Lyon it was probably due to the potent stimulus of SymphorienChampier that so many medical books from Italian sources and notably from the Pavia school were reprinted in the early part of the century”. Ferrari da Gradi’s Practica, up to 1560, saw only nine editions, all appearing in Italy with the exception of two at Lyon. That Gatinaria’s work, which endured so much longer, should have had to wait forty years from its author’s first mention before _if was printed, is rather remarkable. Once more a reference is made to him in another book of the incunabula period: in a little known edition of Mesue, the first book printed at Lyon by Martin H uss and Johann Syber®, This book is dated 31 March 1478 orrected and emendated by the distinguished and expert medi- al doctors “Alme universifafis papiensis Magistrum Johannem Theobaldi, Magistrum Marchum de Papia, etc*. The same notice, Bonino in his Biografia med. Piemontese, Torino, 1824, p. 101, gives 2 date 14 February 1496. According to him, Gaftinaria hailed from Vercelli. ? See in Allut’s admirable Etude sur Symphorien Champier, the amusing ccount of his relations with the medical faculty at Pavia. (Lyon 1859, p. 22 s.) r Ce hs by Claudin, Histoire de l’imprimerie en France, Ill, p. 155, with facsimiles,
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