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HELMONT, JAN BAPTISTA VAN. Ortus medicinae. Part 1 (of 2): lacks Opuscula medica inaudita. [36], 800 pages, including etched double portrait of

HELMONT, JAN BAPTISTA VAN. Ortus medicinae. Part 1 (of 2): lacks Opuscula medica inaudita. [36], 800 pages, including etched double portrait of Helmont and the editor, his son Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont. 4to, 18th-century 1/4 vellum. 18th(?)-century signatures of Lacarriere de Mole, D. Med. Amsterdam: Ludovicus Elzevirius, 1648

  • Notes: first collected edition of the writings of one of the founders of biochemistry, who discovered and coined the term for gas. Garrison-Morton 665; Heirs of Hippocrates 409; Norman 1048; Partington II, 209-40; Thorndike VII, 218-40; Willems 1141.

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