IBN NAHMIAS, ABRAHAM LUSITANUS. Methodus Medendi Universalis, per sanguinis missionem, et purgationem

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author

(MEDICINE)

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Ioannem Baptista

Place

Venice

Publication

1604

Description

Third Edition. Two parts in one

references

Friedenwald, p. 167 & Cat. p. 30

summary

The physician Abraham ibn Nahmias, a native of Lisbon became a resident of free Constantinople. This medical text on the method of treating hematemesis and on the use of cold waters in inflammatory fevers is based on the author’s Hebrew work, "Sifrei Refu'ah." The present Latin edition opens with a paean to the Author by his countryman Dom Salomon Abenyahes [Ibn Yachye] Lusitano. See JE, Vol. IX, p.145; Kayserling, p. 76

pp. (8), 83, (12), (1 blank). Some staining, trace worming. Recent limp vellum. Sm. 4to

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