Opera omnia medica. Editio novissima omni alia auctior. Geneva: De Tournes, 1696.

SYDENHAM, Thomas (and John LOCKE)

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Rare early collected edition of the works of the great English physician Thomas Sydenham (1624-89). The first half of the volume comprises Sydenham's chief work, the Observationes medicae (1676), written originally in English and translated into Latin by Sydenham's friend Dr John Mapletoft. Sydenham's dedication to Mapletoft includes a tribute to another close friend and collaborator, John Locke, who in turn wrote a poem in praise of Sydenham (Yolton 256), also printed here. It has recently been shown that Locke had a significant hand in writing the Preface: see G.G. Meynell, 'John Locke and the Preface to Thomas Sydenham's Observationes Medicae', Medical History, 50 (1), 2006, pp. 93 110). Sydenhams's other works, all included here, are the two Epistolae responsoriae (1680), one on epidemics, addressed to Robert Brady, the other on venereal disease to Henry Paman; Dissertatio epistolaris (1682) on smallpox and hysteria, to William Cole; Tractatus de podagra et hydrope (1683); Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu (1686); and his last completed work Processus integri (1692). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 8vo, portrait frontispiece, lxx, 733, [50] pp., contemporary vellum, underlining in neat old ink on about ten pages, uniform light age-toning, isolated spots, a very good copy. Seller Inventory # ABE-1473427411160

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Title: Opera omnia medica. Editio novissima omni ...

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good