CASTRO, RODRIGO DE. Medicus-Politicus [medical encyclopedia; medical ethics].

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $800

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author

(MEDICINE)

printer

Froben

Place

Hamburg

Publication

1614

Description

FIRST EDITION. Latin with smattering of Greek and Hebrew (on p. 51). Scattered Latin marginalia.

references

Garrison and Morton 1759; cf. Friedenwald, p. 55 (later edition).

summary

One of the Earliest Texts of Medical Ethics. It has been said of the author: "He proves himself a man of scientific training and wise, whose views on the profession of medicine were as high-minded as they were practical" (Gernet, Mittheilungen aus der aelteren Medicinal-Geschichte Hamburgs (1869) p. 138).

pp. (8), 277, (17). Browned. Contemporary limp vellum, stained. Sm. 4to.

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