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Fernel, Jean:
[...] Therapeutices Universalis [...]
Imprint: Lugduni [Lyon], apud Ioannem Veyrat et Thomam Soubron, 1602
Binding:
Hardback
Inscription:
Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
Folio. pp. [iv], 448, [xx], 360, [xvi], 117, [i]. Large woodcut device to title. Some worming, including a wormtrack 2N4-2P4. Contemporary French sheep over flexible paste-boards with wreath ornament, gilt, on the covers. Nineteenth-century ownership inscrption on pastedown: ‘L. Suchet, docteur-medecin’. Early ownership signature (‘Rebour’) at foot of preliminaries crossed out, repeated at conclusion of the work.
Fernel (1506-58) was physician to Henri II and tutor of Vesalius. He lectured on Hippocrates and Galen, coined the terms physiology and pathology and his work was tremendously influential.
Stock number:5651.
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