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Description: FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Small 8 vo. Contemp. vellum. (12), 499, (17) pp. Woodcut title vignette. Worm holes in rear cover not affecting rear pastedown, overall the book shows signs of its age; otherwise, a very good copy. "Duchesne (1544-1609) received his medical degree at Basel in 1573. (He).is a figure of some importance in French literature as well as science and medicine. .Duchesne's medicoscientific works are best seen as part of the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth century debate on the place of chemistry in medicine and natural philosophy." (D.S.B.). "Joseph Duchesne. is primarily remembered for his many works defending the Paracelsian iatrochemical school of thought, which helped bring about a more general acceptance of chemically prepared medicines. In his treatise on four diseases of the head - epilepsy, vertigo, apoplexy and paralysis - Duchesne presented a more precise chemical interpretation of the old notion that epilepsy was caused by noxious fumes, blaming the affliction on the vitriolic vapor of mercury." (H.F. Norman Lib. Cat. 662). This book by the foremost French Paracelsist was first published at Marburg in Latin in 1606. N.L.M. (17th C.), no.3475. Wellcome I. 1903. Ferguson II.236-237.
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