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INGRASSIA, Giovanni Filippo (ca. 1510-80). Quaestio de purgatione per medicamentum, atque obiter etiam de sanguinis missione, an sexta morbi die fieri possint. -Illustrissimi ducis Terranovae casus enarratio, & curatio. E quibus cum penetrantis in thorace vulneris, tum fistulae curandae methodus elucescit. -Quaestio utrum victus a principio ad statum usque procedere debeat subtiliando, an (ut multi perpetuo obseruant) potius ingrossando. -Quod veterinaria medicina formaliter una eademque cum nobiliore hominis medicina sit, materiae duntaxat nobilitate differens. - Andreas VESALIUS (1514-64). Pro magni, et illustr. Terranovae ducis fistula, ex levi axilla in thoracis concavum pervia, & aliis gravibus non paucis affectibus, ob puris supra septum transversum coacervatonem, & ineptam per fistulam expurgationem. Venice: Angelus Patessius, 1568.
4o (204 x 146 mm). 172 leaves. Roman, italic and greek types. Printed shoulder notes. Printer's woodcut device on title page, ornamental woodcut initials. (First leaves soiled and stained, some browning and foxing, the first four leaves strengthened at inner margin, small wormhole in blank area of title page.) 19th-century paper boards, preserving one early flyleaf (some wear, without the back flyleaf).
Provenance: Johannes Rolandus, medical doctor in Austria (17th-century inscription and motto on flyleaf: "Medicina dei opus est. Ex libris Joannis Rolandi Medicinae doctoris. Madicij(?) procerum austriae").
FIRST EDITION of Vesalius' only work on surgery, and of the other works included. Ingrassia, a Sicilian physician who studied at Padua and practiced in Palermo, is best known for "his celebrated case involving Giovanni d'Arragona, marquis of Terranova, who had received a penetrating wound of the left chest in a tournament. When the marquis failed to respond to his treatment, Ingrassia circularized the leading physicians of Europe for suggestions and ultimately elicited, in 1562, Vesalius' remarkable description of his surgical procedure for treatment of empyema [and fistula in the pleural cavity]. Ingrassia acknowledged the advice in the following year but declared that he found it unnecessary to employ it since the marquis had finally recovered. Nevertheless he published Vesalius' desription of his procedure in Quaestio de purgatione per medicamentum ... as he declared, for the sake of posterity" (DSB). Vesalius' work, in the form of a letter to Ingrassia, is found on pp. 92-98 of the work devoted to the case of the marquis of Terranova. Ingrassia, an admirer of Vesalius, also engaged in anatomical studies based on his methods and procedures. BM/STC German p. 339 (imperfect); Garrison & Morton 3164; NLM Durling 2549 (all four works) and 2536 (Ducis Terranovae casus only); Waller 5070; Norman 2142.
4o (204 x 146 mm). 172 leaves. Roman, italic and greek types. Printed shoulder notes. Printer's woodcut device on title page, ornamental woodcut initials. (First leaves soiled and stained, some browning and foxing, the first four leaves strengthened at inner margin, small wormhole in blank area of title page.) 19th-century paper boards, preserving one early flyleaf (some wear, without the back flyleaf).
Provenance: Johannes Rolandus, medical doctor in Austria (17th-century inscription and motto on flyleaf: "Medicina dei opus est. Ex libris Joannis Rolandi Medicinae doctoris. Madicij(?) procerum austriae").
FIRST EDITION of Vesalius' only work on surgery, and of the other works included. Ingrassia, a Sicilian physician who studied at Padua and practiced in Palermo, is best known for "his celebrated case involving Giovanni d'Arragona, marquis of Terranova, who had received a penetrating wound of the left chest in a tournament. When the marquis failed to respond to his treatment, Ingrassia circularized the leading physicians of Europe for suggestions and ultimately elicited, in 1562, Vesalius' remarkable description of his surgical procedure for treatment of empyema [and fistula in the pleural cavity]. Ingrassia acknowledged the advice in the following year but declared that he found it unnecessary to employ it since the marquis had finally recovered. Nevertheless he published Vesalius' desription of his procedure in Quaestio de purgatione per medicamentum ... as he declared, for the sake of posterity" (DSB). Vesalius' work, in the form of a letter to Ingrassia, is found on pp. 92-98 of the work devoted to the case of the marquis of Terranova. Ingrassia, an admirer of Vesalius, also engaged in anatomical studies based on his methods and procedures. BM/STC German p. 339 (imperfect); Garrison & Morton 3164; NLM Durling 2549 (all four works) and 2536 (Ducis Terranovae casus only); Waller 5070; Norman 2142.