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HIPPOCRATES (ca 460-ca 377 BC). Viginti due commentarii tabulis illustrate . Basel: Episcopii, 1579.
HIPPOCRATES (ca 460-ca 377 BC). Viginti due commentarii tabulis illustrate . Basel: Episcopii, 1579. 2 o (312 x 202 mm). Roman, italic and Greek types. Woodcut devices on title-page and verso of last leaf, one historiated woodcut initial "M" showing the death of Julius Caesar smaller woodcut initials. (Some pale marginal dampstaining, a few small marginal wormtracks towards end.) Early 17th-century vellum tooled in black and blind, front cover with central medallion in black bearing the name and arms of "Iohannes Faber Medicinae Doctor", the initials "I F D" above and date "1609" below (ties lacking, adhesion from old paper label on spine). Provenance : Johann Faber (binding); Ingolstadt, Franciscans (inscription on title); Kings County Medical Society Library (bookplate dated 1902, inkstamp on title and section title 2F1r.) Later edition, first edition with the commentaries by Swiss physician and polymath, Theodor Zwinger (1533-1588). It includes both the Greek texts and the Latin translation of the scholar physician, Janus Cornarius (1500-1558). The binding is of particular interest as an armorial binding for a sixteenth century physician. Most probably it was bound for the physician Johann Faber of Nuremberg (1566-1619) who studied medicine in Basel. However, Hirsch identifies another physician of the same name who lived from 1570-1640, making a precise attribution difficult. What is called the "Hippocratic collection" is a conglomeration of works traditionally attributed to the medical school of the Greek Island of Cos, but now thought to include writings that may have come also from Cnidus, and perhaps even from Italy. The majority of these works date from the last decades of the fifth and the first half of the fourth centuries B.C.E. Among the Hippocratic collection are five writings that may be characterized as anatomical: On Anatomy (one page), On the Heart, On the Nature of Bones, On Flesh, and On Glands. These are among the earliest anatomical writings preserved from ancient Greece. However, no Greek physician before Herophilus of Alexandria (fl. 290 B.C.E.) practiced human dissection in a systematic way. The remainder of the Hippocratic collection falls under the following general categories: Theoretical Writings, Clinical Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Deontology (including the Hippocratic Oath). Although none of the seventy-odd works in this collection can be attributed with certainly to Hippocrates, the writings retain their historical significance as the earliest extant sources of Western medical thought and practice. The school, or schools, identified with Hippocrates established an empirical system of medicine based upon observation and clinical experience, advancing medicine beyond the influences of magic and priestcraft. Adams H-621; NLM/Durling 4805; Prioreschi, A History of Medicine, Volume II: Greek Medicine (1996) 222-229.