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LANCISI, Giovanni Maria. Dissertatio de nativis, deque adventitiis romani coeli qualitatibus, cui accedit historia epedemiae rheumaticae, quae per hyemem anni MDCCIX. vagata est. Rome: Francisco Gonzaga, 1711.
4o (239 x 181 mm). Engraved title-vignette, engraved head- and tail-pieces, and several large engraved initials. (Some minor foxing and light soiling.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance: some early marginal scribbling on F4 and G1; Biblioteca L. Gonzales Savathie (small stamps on title margins and fore-margin on H2).
FIRST EDITION of Lancisi's classic epidemiology. Lancisi, the greatest Italian clinician of the early 18th-century and physician to Clement XI, wrote this work at Clement's request. This work is chiefly on municipal hygiene and preventative medicine. The first part examines the health aspects of the Roman environment and in particular the water supply and the Pontine marshes. Lancisi identifies stagnant and polluted waters as loci of diseases; he was later to suggest the role of mosquitoes in the spread of malaria (see next lot). The second part gives a history of Roman epidemics, including a full description of the devastating epidemic of influenza which started in Italy in 1709 and spread through most of Europe. The work resulted in several Papal edicts to improve the sanitation of the Roman states. Heirs of Hippocrates 689; NLM/Blake, p. 254; Waller 5543; Wellcome III, p. 441.
4o (239 x 181 mm). Engraved title-vignette, engraved head- and tail-pieces, and several large engraved initials. (Some minor foxing and light soiling.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance: some early marginal scribbling on F4 and G1; Biblioteca L. Gonzales Savathie (small stamps on title margins and fore-margin on H2).
FIRST EDITION of Lancisi's classic epidemiology. Lancisi, the greatest Italian clinician of the early 18th-century and physician to Clement XI, wrote this work at Clement's request. This work is chiefly on municipal hygiene and preventative medicine. The first part examines the health aspects of the Roman environment and in particular the water supply and the Pontine marshes. Lancisi identifies stagnant and polluted waters as loci of diseases; he was later to suggest the role of mosquitoes in the spread of malaria (see next lot). The second part gives a history of Roman epidemics, including a full description of the devastating epidemic of influenza which started in Italy in 1709 and spread through most of Europe. The work resulted in several Papal edicts to improve the sanitation of the Roman states. Heirs of Hippocrates 689; NLM/Blake, p. 254; Waller 5543; Wellcome III, p. 441.