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RODRIGUES, Joao (1511-1568). [AMATUS LUSITANUS, pseudonym]. Curationum medicinalium centuriae quatuor, quarum duae priores ab auctore sunt recognite, due posteriores nunc primum edite... Basel: Froben, 1556.
2o (302 x 194 mm). s8 a-s6 t4 v-z A-O6. 228 leaves. Roman and italic type. (Light browning, minor dampstaining to a few leaves.) 18th-century vellum, spine ink-lettered (some wear to head of spine, covers bowning).
Provenance: Petrus Franciscus Boeck (?) (ownership inscription on z5r).
First Edition of this collection. Rodrigues, who adopted the humanistic name Amatus Lusitanus, was a physician and surgeon of Jewish-Spanish origin. This collection contains the first recorded case of purpura as a separate entity, not associated with fever.
Adams A-915; Garrison-Morton 3049; NLM/Durling 200; Wellcome 263; Norman 1840.
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Provenance: Petrus Franciscus Boeck (?) (ownership inscription on z5
First Edition of this collection. Rodrigues, who adopted the humanistic name Amatus Lusitanus, was a physician and surgeon of Jewish-Spanish origin. This collection contains the first recorded case of purpura as a separate entity, not associated with fever.
Adams A-915; Garrison-Morton 3049; NLM/Durling 200; Wellcome 263; Norman 1840.