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CARDANO, Girolamo (1501-1576). Opus novum cunctis de Sanitate Tuenda. Ed. Rudolphus Sylvestrus. Rome: Francesco Zanetti, 1580.
2o (288 x 198 mm). a6 cancelled (apparently blank). Etched title vignette incorporating the arms of Pope Gregory XIII, some small woodcuts in text. (Occasional worming with some wormtracks affecting letters, pale dampstain on title.) Contemporary binding of vellum manuscript leaf (14th-century) over pasteboard (a few defects). Provenance: Some marginalia and text marks in an early hand.
FIRST EDITION. Along with his mathematical and other scientific endeavors, Cardano simultaneously practiced medicine. He achieved such success in the field that his colleagues became envious. "His first work, De malo recentiorum medicorum usu libellus (Venice, 1536), was directed against them. Within a few years Cardano became the most famous physician in Milan, and amont the doctors of Europe he was second only to Vesalius. Among his famous patients was John Hamilton, archbishop of Edinburgh, who suffered from asthma" (DSB). This posthumous work published in Rome is concerned mostly with hygiene, diet and geriatrics. NLM/Durling 858; Norman 403.
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FIRST EDITION. Along with his mathematical and other scientific endeavors, Cardano simultaneously practiced medicine. He achieved such success in the field that his colleagues became envious. "His first work, De malo recentiorum medicorum usu libellus (Venice, 1536), was directed against them. Within a few years Cardano became the most famous physician in Milan, and amont the doctors of Europe he was second only to Vesalius. Among his famous patients was John Hamilton, archbishop of Edinburgh, who suffered from asthma" (DSB). This posthumous work published in Rome is concerned mostly with hygiene, diet and geriatrics. NLM/Durling 858; Norman 403.