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COTUGNO, Domenico (1736-1822). De ischiade nervosa commentarius. Naples: Fratres Simonios, 1764.
8o (199 x 121 mm). Title printed in red and black. Engraved plate by Cimarelli. (Some scattered foxing.) Contemporary vellum (a bit soiled). Provenance: Giovanni Vivenzio (fl. 1783-1804), Neapolitan court physician and director of the military hospital during the late 18th and early 19th centuries (presentation inscription from the author on the title-page verso: "Joanni Vivensio viro clarissimo et amicissimo in observatiae pignus Auctor").
PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of Cotugno's classic description of the sciatica. "He recognized two types--arthritic and nervous; the latter has been called 'Cotugno's disease', and his book is confined to that type" (Garrison-Morton). His commentary also describes a case of acute nephritis. Cotugno "was the first to describe the fluid surrounding the spinal cord and to suggest that it was in continuity with the ventricular and cerebral subarachnoid fluids" (Clarke-O'Malley).
This copy also bears an annotation presumably by the author on the "Characterum iconis explicatio" (F4v), where the identification for the iron instrument (indicated in the illustration as M) has been neatly added. PRESENTATION COPIES BY COTUGNO ARE VERY RARE. Clarke-O'Malley, The Human Brain and Spinal Cord (Berkeley, 1968), pp. 721-22; Garrison-Morton 1382, 4204.2 and 4515; Heirs of Hippocrates 1026; Waller 2166; Wellcome II, p.398; Norman 522.
8o (199 x 121 mm). Title printed in red and black. Engraved plate by Cimarelli. (Some scattered foxing.) Contemporary vellum (a bit soiled). Provenance: Giovanni Vivenzio (fl. 1783-1804), Neapolitan court physician and director of the military hospital during the late 18th and early 19th centuries (presentation inscription from the author on the title-page verso: "Joanni Vivensio viro clarissimo et amicissimo in observatiae pignus Auctor").
PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of Cotugno's classic description of the sciatica. "He recognized two types--arthritic and nervous; the latter has been called 'Cotugno's disease', and his book is confined to that type" (Garrison-Morton). His commentary also describes a case of acute nephritis. Cotugno "was the first to describe the fluid surrounding the spinal cord and to suggest that it was in continuity with the ventricular and cerebral subarachnoid fluids" (Clarke-O'Malley).
This copy also bears an annotation presumably by the author on the "Characterum iconis explicatio" (F4v), where the identification for the iron instrument (indicated in the illustration as M) has been neatly added. PRESENTATION COPIES BY COTUGNO ARE VERY RARE. Clarke-O'Malley, The Human Brain and Spinal Cord (Berkeley, 1968), pp. 721-22; Garrison-Morton 1382, 4204.2 and 4515; Heirs of Hippocrates 1026; Waller 2166; Wellcome II, p.398; Norman 522.