Lot Essay
Ramazzini's treatise on the health of princes, De principium valetudine tuenda commentario, first published at Padua in 1710, went through several Latin editions before being here translated into French by Coulet. Also included in this work is Coulet's translation of Rammazini's Dissertation de sacrarum virginum valetudine tuenda, which first appeared as a supplement to De morbis artificium in 1713, and of his Annotationes in librum Ludovici Cornelii de vita sobriae commodis. Ramazzini, feeling that Lessius's translation of Cornaro could not be improved upon, "simply inserted his own lengthy notes in italics throughout Lessius's text."