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ACTUARIUS, JOANNES. De medicamentorum compositione. Part 1 (of 2). 1540

ACTUARIUS, JOANNES. De medicamentorum compositione. [14], 240, [79] pages. Latin translation by Jean Ruel; edited by Dionysius Corronius. Small 8vo, early 19th-century German marbled boards with small modern shelf labels on spine; contents browned. Basel: (Robert Winter, 1540)

  • Notes: Second edition of a work on pharmacology and therapeutics by a 13th-/14th-century Byzantine physician, forming the fifth and sixth books of his Methodus medendi, a treatise on general medicine. Ruel''s translation was first published the year before. This copy lacks the 89-page second part containing a table of medicinal substitutions by Conrad Gesner. Choulant, Handbuch, page 154; Durling 2583; Hoffmann II, 397; Sarton III, 889.
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