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BAGELLARDUS, Paulus (d. 1492 or 1494). De infantium aegritudinis et remediis. Padua: Bartolomeo de Valdezoccho and Martinus de Septem Arboribus, 21 April 1472.
Chancery 4o (201 x 136 mm). Collation: [12 2-310 48 510] (1/1r blank, 1/1v table of chapters of Part II, 1/2v blank, 2/1r author's dedication to Doge Nicol Truno, 2/2r Part I, De regimine infantium in primo mense, 2/5v Part II, De aegritudinibus infantium, 5/10r colophon, 5/10v blank. Quires 2 and 4 misbound). 40 leaves. 24 lines. Type: 2:115R. Spaces for 6-, 3- and 2-line initials. Lombard initials and occasional capital strokes supplied in red. Blind impression of bearer type (repeated lower-case "m") on 1/2, partly traced in in ink. (Washed and heavily resized, minor marginal repairs and soiling to first and last 2 leaves, stain to upper margin of first leaf from deleted inscription, some dampstaining to upper margins of last quire.) Modern blind-tooled calf antique, vellum spine label, by C. A. Carpenter, Jr.
Provenance: Omitted chapter title to chapter VI (2/10v) and a few other small corrections supplied in brown ink by a contemporary hand; effaced ownership inscription on 1/1r.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED BOOK ON PEDIATRICS, and "the first medical treatise to make its original appearance in printed form, rather having prior circulation in manuscript" (Garrison-Morton). Bagellardo, a Paduan physician, borrowed heavily from Hippocrates and Galen as well as the writings of the 11th- and 12th-century Arab physicians Avicenna (ibn Sina) and Rhazes (al-Razi), but his treatise, which preceded the first publication of the latter's De curis puerorum in prima aetate by nine years (see lot 174), also includes his own personal observations and opinions. The short first part, undivided into chapters, concerns the care of newborns and infants; the 22 chapters of the second part relate to the most common childhood ailments, including diarrhea, constipation, seizures and epilepsy, disorders of the eyes and ears, chest ailments, stomach-aches, skin rashes, and cuts and scrapes. The work is noteworthy for being the first medical book to make its original appearance in print rather than in manuscript form, and for being one of the two first medical books to be submitted to the press by a living author. It is however most remarkable for its subject matter at this early date: with only a few exceptions -- e.g., Phaer's Boke of Children (1544), Ferrarius's De arte medica infantium (1577), and Mercuriali's De morbis puerorum (1583) -- the health care of infants and children remained largely disregarded by the medical profession until the eighteenth century, when it ceased to be relegated to the exclusively female domain of mothers, nurses and midwives.
This edition, one of the first books printed at Padua, is VERY RARE. The present copy is apparently the first to appear at auction in the past 50 or more years.
Goff B-10; BMC VII, 904 (IA. 29805); CIBN B-8 (imperfect); GW 3166; H *2244; IGI 1146; Garrison-Morton 6315; Grolier Medicine 9 (this copy exhibited); Osler 20; Stillwell Science 291; Norman 102.
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Provenance: Omitted chapter title to chapter VI (2/10v) and a few other small corrections supplied in brown ink by a contemporary hand; effaced ownership inscription on 1/1r.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED BOOK ON PEDIATRICS, and "the first medical treatise to make its original appearance in printed form, rather having prior circulation in manuscript" (Garrison-Morton). Bagellardo, a Paduan physician, borrowed heavily from Hippocrates and Galen as well as the writings of the 11th- and 12th-century Arab physicians Avicenna (ibn Sina) and Rhazes (al-Razi), but his treatise, which preceded the first publication of the latter's De curis puerorum in prima aetate by nine years (see lot 174), also includes his own personal observations and opinions. The short first part, undivided into chapters, concerns the care of newborns and infants; the 22 chapters of the second part relate to the most common childhood ailments, including diarrhea, constipation, seizures and epilepsy, disorders of the eyes and ears, chest ailments, stomach-aches, skin rashes, and cuts and scrapes. The work is noteworthy for being the first medical book to make its original appearance in print rather than in manuscript form, and for being one of the two first medical books to be submitted to the press by a living author. It is however most remarkable for its subject matter at this early date: with only a few exceptions -- e.g., Phaer's Boke of Children (1544), Ferrarius's De arte medica infantium (1577), and Mercuriali's De morbis puerorum (1583) -- the health care of infants and children remained largely disregarded by the medical profession until the eighteenth century, when it ceased to be relegated to the exclusively female domain of mothers, nurses and midwives.
This edition, one of the first books printed at Padua, is VERY RARE. The present copy is apparently the first to appear at auction in the past 50 or more years.
Goff B-10; BMC VII, 904 (IA. 29805); CIBN B-8 (imperfect); GW 3166; H *2244; IGI 1146; Garrison-Morton 6315; Grolier Medicine 9 (this copy exhibited); Osler 20; Stillwell Science 291; Norman 102.