Aphorismi De Cognoscendis Et Curandis Morbis : In Usum Doctrinae Domesticae Digesti

Herman Boerhaave

Parisiis : Apud G. Cavelier, 1745.

12mo. Two volumes bound in one. [8], 304, [26] p. ; 17 cm. Contemporary mottled leather, brown leather spine label, raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers. Rubbing, chipping to edges, joints cracked. Marginal scattered foxing.

Herman Boerhaave, Voorhout,  was a Dutch  botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital. His main achievement was to demonstrate the relation of symptoms to lesions. In addition, he was the first to isolate the chemical urea from urine. Subjects: Internal medicine; physiology. The Aphorisms represent one of Boerhaave's best works. (Garrison-Morton)