Riolan Jean Younger (3 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. Tall 8vo (18cm), 2 works in 3 parts bound together in contemporary limp vellum with ties on boards, and manuscript title on spine, a very clean and unsophisticated copy. Each part with own titlepage and printer's device, ff. 175, (3); (4), 71, (1); (4), 186, (2). Second edition of this interesting ensemble of works by Jean Riolan (the Younger) (15 February 1577 or 1580 - 19 February 1657), a French anatomist who was also an influential member of the Medical Faculty of Paris. His father, Jean Riolan (the Elder) (1539-1605) was also a noted anatomist. Riolan was personal physician to Marie de' Medici (1553-1642), and is remembered for his traditional views towards medicine, being a major proponent of the teachings of Galen. He differed from Harvey's theory of circulation, calculating instead that blood traveled through the blood vessels to the body's extremities and returned to theheart only two or three times a day. He also postulated that blood often ebbed and flowed in the veins and that it was taken in as nourishment by different parts of the body. Riolan also did not believe that the heart propelled the blood; instead he proposed that the blood kept the heart in motion, analogous to a stream moving the wheel of a water mill. Riolan had other disagreements with Harvey, such as the role of the liver as a blood-manufacturing organ. Riolan was an opponent to the practice ofvivisection, asserting that violent and painful deaths suffered by research animals, placed them in an unnatural condition that led to incorrect assumptions about the functionality of healthy animals. Riolan attacked Thomas Bartholin on the question of the latter's discovery of the lymphatic system. Riolan's best known written works are Anthropographie (1618), which is a treatise on human anatomy, and Opuscula anatomica (1649), in which he is critical of Harvey's views of the circulatory system. The eponymous "anastomosis of Riolan" is named after him, which is the mesenteric arterial connection between the superior and inferior mesenteric arteries. Marginal fibers of the palpebral part of the orbicularis oculi muscle are known as "Riolan's muscle", also commonly referred to as the "Grey Line." The cremasteric muscle is also eponymously named after Riolan. Adams R-572 (only the first work.); Durling 3882 and 3883.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Sammelband of THREE SCARCE EARLY MEDICAL WORKS from 1605. Hardcover, 12mo (3 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches) in vellum binding, pp [24] 258 [6]; [2] 66 [4]; [12] 348 [8]. Collation: [12] A-K12, L10 [2]; A-C12; A18, B-O12, P10 [I2 misnumbered as I3]. In Latin. CONDITION: Very Good Antiquarian Condition. Binding is firm. Some light damp stains to corner of some pages, especially in the "Pharmacia". Some small chips & tears to fore-edges of a few pages, not affecting text. A few pages showing worming, generally at margins.** FIRST TITLE: "De Sanguine, Diolgi VII," Hanoviae: Typis Welcelianus, apud Claudium Marrinium & haeredes Ioan. Aubrii, 1605. Reprint. (First published 1562,) Contains seven "dialogues" on Hippocrates, the planets, the gods, blood and the "humors". The participants of the dialogue are: Joannes Fornerius IC. (Jean Fornier, unknown) Petrus Gauterus Pharmacop. (pharmacist, unknown) and AUTHOR Ionnis Carvini, Med. Montisalba, (Jean Carvin, doctor, d. 1562. cnp02409886.) Rare: 4 copies of this edition only shown on USTC 2131349. OCLC 492998989. VD17 1:090922P. ** SECOND TITLE: "Incursionum Quercetani de Pulsio,"1605, First Edition. AUTHOR Ioannem Riolanum Fil. (Jean Riolan the Younger (1577 - 1657, cnp01877741,) was a French physician and the son of physician Jean Riolan the Elder (1539 - 1605). He was appointed royal professor of anatomy and botany by Louis XIII in 1613. He established a botanic garden at the University of Paris, and was physician to Marie de' Medici until her death in 1642. Also known for anatomical studies, publishing several works on his discoveries. The "Querecetanus" of the title of our book refers to Joseph DuChesne (c. 1544 - 1609), a French physician and alchemist, and physician to Henry IV of France (married to Marie de' Medici). DuChesne followed Paracelsus (1493-1541) in advocating the use of chemistry in medical treatments, and published "De priscorum philosophorum verae medicinae materia" ("Of the ancient philosophers the matter of true medicine") in 1603. This was replied to by Jean Riolan the Elder in his "Apologia pro Hippocratis Galeni medicina" ("Apology for Hippocrates Galen's medicine") in 1603, in which Riolan accused DuChesne of sweeping away the wisdom of the Ancients. DuChesne, in his turn, replied with the publication of "Ad Brevem Riolani excursum brevis incursio" in 1605, in which he denied the accusation, and said that he wished to build on the knowledge of the old medicine, adding modern chemistry. This work, in turn, had a few replies, including our book, "Incursionum Quercetani de Pulsio" in 1605, by Jean Riolan the Younger. In this work, Riolan denounces the use of Alchemy in medicine. PUBLISHER OF NOTE, "Ex Officina Plantiniana," refers to the renowned Antwerp-based Renaissance humanist and publisher Christophe Plantin (1520-1589), who ran afoul of religious authorities on more than one occasion, causing him to remove his presses from Paris to Antwerp and back again. His famous works include the Plantin Polyglot Bible and others in a wide variety of languages; his association with typeographer Claude Garamond led to what is considered the height of letterpress printing of the age. He developed an outsourced network of printers for his works, a new business model in this time, this particular printer being "Apud Hadrianum Perier"in Paris 's Via Iocabae, [Adrian Perier, active 1584-1629, cnp01876550.] Plantin's woodblock printer's device on the title page of this work , featuring a fruited garland beribboned with the Latin motto "Labore et Constantia" (by labor and constancy) also features a hand extending from clouds holding a compass inscribing a circle. It has been suggested that the center point of the compasses "indicates constancy, the moving point which renders the circle is the labor" (D. Badkey).OCLC lists only 5 copies worldwide No. 14311536. USTC nor RBH seem to list this title; hence VERY RARE. ** THIRD TITLE: "Pharmacia Io. Fernelii cum Guilel. PlantI & Franc. SaguyerI. Scholiis: In usum Pharmacopoeorum nunc primum edita." (1605), stated First Edition. Published by Typis Wechelianus [heirs of Andreas Wechel,] in Hanoviae. Printers Claud. Marrinium (Claude de Marne)& haeredes Io. Aubrii Johann Aubry I, heirs of.) Note : These are the same publisher/printers as first title in this sammelband. AUTHOR Jean François Fernel (French, 1497 - 1558, cnp01875467) was one of the most celebrated surgeons of the sixteenth century, a physician, who coined the word "physiology". He studied philosophy, math and astrology, and was Professor of Philosophy and of Medicine at the University at Sainte-Barbe. He became court physician to Henry II and his wife Catherine de' Medici. Mentioned in a dedication by Ioannes Crato, 1581. Died Paris 1558. The "Pharmacia" is a compilation of medicinal substances and their applications. Sample entries include: lemon syrup, oxysaccharum simplex, perfumed oil, and "malos odoriferis". OCLC 43176353. USTC No. 2079222, lists 9 copies worldwide. RARE. PROVENANCE: French book collector, René Bégeot, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Includes 2 First Editions and One Reprint, all 1605.

Condition: Good. Fine frontispiece of dissection deomonstration with named doctors present + implements etc + folding engraved plates (24 as called for) by R.A. Persyn. Octavo later half calf and marbled sides (1" split to head&foot of hinge/tips worn) [20]+471+[48]pp (Signatures: *8 2* A-Z AaBb8 Cc6 (Cc6 blank) Dd-Hh8 (and 24 unsigned leaves of letterpress accompanying plates). Pages 411-416 omitted in numbering FEP with comments on Riolan by a previous owner. The folding plates and their facing textural explanations are printed on one side of the leaves only, the first plate has a small repaired tear without loss, last few blank versos of the pages are dusty in margins. Small loss to blank area of lower margin of frontis. Some stainging and minor tanning throughout to the pages but never intrusive and not affecting the crispness of the paper. *Riolano was physician to Mary de Medici mother of Louis XIII and influenced the king to establish Paris' botanical gardens. This, is one of his principal works but he also wrote against Harvey's blood circulation, tried to disprove existance of Giants &c but according to the commentator on the front endpaper he was finally convinced of the circulatory vascular system towards the end of his life (referenced by Waller 7998). 1 volume. Hardcover.