BAILLOU, Guillaume de [BALLONIUS] (1538-1616). Opera omnia, edited by Jacob Thevart with preface by T. Tronchin, Geneva: Fratres de Tournes, 1762, 4 volumes in 2, 4°, volume I with half title and title in red and black, woodcut ornaments (several John Crerar perforations, other library markings), modern brown buckram [Wellcome II, p. 87; cf. GM 60 for the 1734-36 first edition of the Opera].

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BAILLOU, Guillaume de [BALLONIUS] (1538-1616). Opera omnia, edited by Jacob Thevart with preface by T. Tronchin, Geneva: Fratres de Tournes, 1762, 4 volumes in 2, 4°, volume I with half title and title in red and black, woodcut ornaments (several John Crerar perforations, other library markings), modern brown buckram [Wellcome II, p. 87; cf. GM 60 for the 1734-36 first edition of the Opera].
Together with the collected works in Latin of Giorgio Baglivi and Giambattista Borsieri de Kanilfeld in a total of 5 volumes. (7)

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"De Baillou, 'the first epidemiologist of modern times,' foreshadowed much that was afterwards taught by Sydenham. He first described whooping-cough and introduced the term 'rheumatism.' He was court physician during the reign of Henry IV of France" [GM]

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