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WEPFER, JOHANN JACOB. Cicutae aquaticae historia et noxae. [22], 336, [8] pages, including engraved frontispiece showing map of the Danube and view
WEPFER, JOHANN JACOB. Cicutae aquaticae historia et noxae. [22], 336, [8] pages, including engraved frontispiece showing map of the Danube and view of Donaueschingen, 4 full-page woodcut botanical illustrations, and final blank. 4to, contemporary vellum, spine darkened, covers slightly warped; contents browned. H. F. Norman bookplate. Basel: Johann Rudolph Genath for Johann Rudolph König, 1679
- Notes: first edition of a pioneering work on toxicology, also reporting the discovery of the duodenal glands. "This work on the effects of hemlock and other poisons contributed to the doctrine of vital force, for Wepfer showed that the heart and structure of the viscera were changed by administration of poisons"--Heirs of Hippocrates 535 (1716 edition). Garrison-Morton 974.1; Krivatsy 12949; Nissen BBI 2136; Norman 2204.
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