BECKHER, Daniel (1594-1655). Cultrivori Prussiaci Curatio singularis . Leyden: Joannis Maire, 1640. 8 o (141 x 90 mm). Folding woodcut illustration. Contemporary paste-paper boards (textblock loose in boards). Third edition, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. The text relays an amusing account of a patient who tried to tickle his throat with a knife to induce vomiting to relieve his nausea. Having swallowed the knife, the patient took a drink of beer and stood on his head thinking that the knife would slide out easily. Instead the knife became lodged in his stomach and had to be removed by Daniel Schwabe, a wound and lithotomy surgeon. The patient fully recovered. NLM/Krivatsy 1005; Waller 820.
BECKHER, Daniel (1594-1655). Cultrivori Prussiaci Curatio singularis . Leyden: Joannis Maire, 1640. 8 o (141 x 90 mm). Folding woodcut illustration. Contemporary paste-paper boards (textblock loose in boards). Third edition, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. The text relays an amusing account of a patient who tried to tickle his throat with a knife to induce vomiting to relieve his nausea. Having swallowed the knife, the patient took a drink of beer and stood on his head thinking that the knife would slide out easily. Instead the knife became lodged in his stomach and had to be removed by Daniel Schwabe, a wound and lithotomy surgeon. The patient fully recovered. NLM/Krivatsy 1005; Waller 820.
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