CASTRO, Estevao Rodrigues de. Commentarius in Hippocratis Coi, libellum de alimento, in quo multiplici didascalia variae controversiae in utramq[ue] partem disputantur, et argumentorum funibus, authorumque securibus Satyro cornua ligantur, confriguntur. Opus in quatuor sectiones diuisum quarum priores duae in hoc volumine continentur... Florence: Sermartelli, 1635.

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CASTRO, Estevao Rodrigues de. Commentarius in Hippocratis Coi, libellum de alimento, in quo multiplici didascalia variae controversiae in utramq[ue] partem disputantur, et argumentorum funibus, authorumque securibus Satyro cornua ligantur, confriguntur. Opus in quatuor sectiones diuisum quarum priores duae in hoc volumine continentur... Florence: Sermartelli, 1635.

2o (306 x 211 mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved title vignette and printer's woodcut device on colophon page. Contemporary vellum. Provenance: early ink marginalia.

FIRST EDITION. Born in Lisbon 1559 "...de Castro studied at Pisa and became a distinguished professor of medicine there [and at Padua]. He was a gifted poet and was called the 'Phoenic of Medicine' by his contemporary Zacutus Lusitanus." Friedenwald The Jews and Medicine, Baltimore, 1944, volume II, p. 718; Roth A History of the Marranos, New York, 1944, p. 77.

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FERDINANDUS, Epiphanius. Centum historiae, seu observationes, et casus medici, omnes fere medicinae partes, cunctosque corporis humani morbos continentes... Nunc primum in lucem editae. Preface by Cataldo Antonio Mannarino. Venice: Thomas Baglionus, 1621.

2o. Title printed in red and black, woodcut title vignette. FIRST EDITION. NLM/Krivatsy 3991; Wellcome 2190.

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