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CHIARI DA PISA. Della medicina di Aurelio C. Celso Medicine. CHIARI DA PISA, Abate. Della medicina di Aurelio C. Celso. Venezia, Occhi, 1747 2 vols. 16mo, 166x105 mm; contemporary full vellum binding, title written on the spine, sprayed edges. Woodcut vignette on title pages. On the first volume, engraving image with two medallions: in the bottom a palm close to the water, in the lower portrait of the translator in a medallion, with subscription: ?j. f. sc.? Some pages with foxing in the first volume, very light in a few pages of the second. Good specimen.
Elegant eighteenth century edition. The work focuses on the figure of the famous Roman doctor who lived during the empire of Augustus and Tiberius. As a physician he experimented with techniques and operations in the medical and surgical fields. Deep acquaintance of Hippocrates certainly had contact with Alexandria medicine and with some Greek doctors transferred to Rome.