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FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566)
Apologia. Hagenau: Peter Braubach, 1534.
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FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566)
Apologia. Hagenau: Peter Braubach, 1534.
[Bound with:] TURINI, Andrea (c.1473-1543). De curatione pleuritidis per venae sectionem. Lyon: Michel Parmentier, 1537.
[and:] DRYVERE, Jérémie de (1504-1554). De missione sanguinis in pleuritide. Louvain: Bartholomaeus Gravius, 1532.
[and:] – De temporibus morborum et opportunitate auxiliorum. Louvain: Servaes Sassenus, 1535.
Rare first edition of Fuchs’s polemic on the bloodletting controversy of the early 16th century: we are unable to trace any copy at auction. His third published book, the Apologia defends the Brissotian method which advocated letting blood near the diseased organ, against the opposing view of Jérémie de Dryvere, who promoted the Arab-influenced practice of bloodletting from the opposite side of the body. Fuchs’s alignment with Brissot and the Hippocratic tradition was evidently appreciated by Andreas Vesalius, who in his famous letter on bloodletting of 1539 refers indirectly to the Apologia. NLM 1671; VD16 F 3234; not in Wellcome.
The present sammelband also contains de Dryvere’s De missione sanguinis of 1532, which provoked Fuchs’s engagement with the controversy, as well as the De temporibus morborum of 1535, to which is appended de Dryvere’s subsequent response to Fuchs. The other text in the volume, Turini’s De curatione pleuritidis, advocates venesection as a primary intervention for pleurisy.
4 works in one volume, quarto (185 x 132mm). Turini: woodcut publisher’s device, initials (title faintly dust-soiled, minor marginal browning); Fuchs: woodcut initials (title faintly soiled, a few minor stains); de Dryvere (both works): (a few faint spots). Early 20th-century library cloth, lettered ‘Tracts D 127’ and with the stamp of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in gilt on spine. Provenance: early marginal annotations to the third work (De missione sanguinis in pleuritide) – ink inscriptions on title and title verso from c.1700 recording the 4 works in a volume of ‘Miscellanea’, alongside Vesalius’s Epistola (1539), which was evidently extracted prior the current binding – Royal Society of Medicine (ink stamps [Medical and Chirurgical Society] and binding [Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society]).
Apologia. Hagenau: Peter Braubach, 1534.
[Bound with:] TURINI, Andrea (c.1473-1543). De curatione pleuritidis per venae sectionem. Lyon: Michel Parmentier, 1537.
[and:] DRYVERE, Jérémie de (1504-1554). De missione sanguinis in pleuritide. Louvain: Bartholomaeus Gravius, 1532.
[and:] – De temporibus morborum et opportunitate auxiliorum. Louvain: Servaes Sassenus, 1535.
Rare first edition of Fuchs’s polemic on the bloodletting controversy of the early 16th century: we are unable to trace any copy at auction. His third published book, the Apologia defends the Brissotian method which advocated letting blood near the diseased organ, against the opposing view of Jérémie de Dryvere, who promoted the Arab-influenced practice of bloodletting from the opposite side of the body. Fuchs’s alignment with Brissot and the Hippocratic tradition was evidently appreciated by Andreas Vesalius, who in his famous letter on bloodletting of 1539 refers indirectly to the Apologia. NLM 1671; VD16 F 3234; not in Wellcome.
The present sammelband also contains de Dryvere’s De missione sanguinis of 1532, which provoked Fuchs’s engagement with the controversy, as well as the De temporibus morborum of 1535, to which is appended de Dryvere’s subsequent response to Fuchs. The other text in the volume, Turini’s De curatione pleuritidis, advocates venesection as a primary intervention for pleurisy.
4 works in one volume, quarto (185 x 132mm). Turini: woodcut publisher’s device, initials (title faintly dust-soiled, minor marginal browning); Fuchs: woodcut initials (title faintly soiled, a few minor stains); de Dryvere (both works): (a few faint spots). Early 20th-century library cloth, lettered ‘Tracts D 127’ and with the stamp of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in gilt on spine. Provenance: early marginal annotations to the third work (De missione sanguinis in pleuritide) – ink inscriptions on title and title verso from c.1700 recording the 4 works in a volume of ‘Miscellanea’, alongside Vesalius’s Epistola (1539), which was evidently extracted prior the current binding – Royal Society of Medicine (ink stamps [Medical and Chirurgical Society] and binding [Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society]).
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