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PARACELSUS (ca. 1493-1541). Septem libri de gradibus, de compositionibus, de dosibus receptorum ac Naturalium. Edited by A. von Bodenstein. Basel: for Peter Perna, 1568.
8o (155 x 102 mm). Collation: a-o8. 112 leaves, paginated. (Some minor marginal dampstaining.) Modern marbled boards. Provenance: Wellcome Library (withdrawn stamp on title verso).
FIRST EDITION containing most of Paracelsus's innovations in chemical therapeutics. "Paracelsus rebelled against ancient humoral pathology, which held that all disease resulted from an imbalance of bodily humors, by stating that each disease was a specific entity caused by an agent outside the body" (Norman). VERY RARE. Cf. Garrison-Morton 1818; NLM/Durling 3480; Pagel Paracelsus pp. 134-146; Sudhoff 98; Wellcome 4765; Norman 1636.
8o (155 x 102 mm). Collation: a-o8. 112 leaves, paginated. (Some minor marginal dampstaining.) Modern marbled boards. Provenance: Wellcome Library (withdrawn stamp on title verso).
FIRST EDITION containing most of Paracelsus's innovations in chemical therapeutics. "Paracelsus rebelled against ancient humoral pathology, which held that all disease resulted from an imbalance of bodily humors, by stating that each disease was a specific entity caused by an agent outside the body" (Norman). VERY RARE. Cf. Garrison-Morton 1818; NLM/Durling 3480; Pagel Paracelsus pp. 134-146; Sudhoff 98; Wellcome 4765; Norman 1636.