FERNEL, Jean François Universa medicina . Paris: Andreas Wechel, 1567. 2 o (336 x 218 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, with a fine woodcut portrait of the author on leaf e2v, large woodcut initials for the opening of each book and smaller ones for the chapters. (Title a bit soiled and spotted, worn at gutter, marginal worming from 2b1-2e3 and F1-H1, some marginal dampstaining, damaging upper margin and first few lines of text on 2i1.6, 2k5, 2l1, 2s1, 2zi, X2-3.) Contemporary calf gilt (worn, old repairs to spine). Provenance : inscription dated 1572 on pastedown. FIRST EDITION of Fernel's last work, finished and edited by Guillaume Plancy, his younger contemporary, follower and biographer. "On his deathbed Fernel was greatly worried that he had not found time to put the finishing touches to his Medicina . It fell upon Plancy to edit the full text of the Universa medicina (1567), which contained chapters of physiology, pathology, therapeutics, and such ... The important contribution was undoubtedly the "Physiologiae," in which he had noted peristalsis and the systole and diastole of the heart; he did not, however, realize that the veins and arteries were connected by capillaries. Also of interest is his notion that the veins hinder clotting. Fernel's anatomical observations, among them the earliest description of the spinal canal, were good and clearly presented, before or simultaneous with Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica (1543), the shadow of which may well have lain too heavily over significant contributions from contemporaries and predecessors. In medicine Fernel gave early descriptions of appendicitis and endocarditis' (DSB IV, p. 586). "In addition to the works included in the Medicina , Plancy added four books to Therapeutice from manuscripts left by Fernel and also added De abditis rerum causis , which had originally been intended to follow the Physiologiae . This first edition includes Plancy's introductory letter and the profile woodcut of Fernel from the 1554 Medicina with Plancy's Greek couplet beneath the portrait. It is in that edition that Fernel's description of "iliac passion" first appears. This is believed to be the first clinical account of acute appendicitis with intestinal perforation" ( Heirs of Hippocrates 220). NLM/Durling 1464 (lacking final leaf); Sherrington 57 JI; Waller 2997; Wellcome I:2202.
FERNEL, Jean François Universa medicina . Paris: Andreas Wechel, 1567. 2 o (336 x 218 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, with a fine woodcut portrait of the author on leaf e2v, large woodcut initials for the opening of each book and smaller ones for the chapters. (Title a bit soiled and spotted, worn at gutter, marginal worming from 2b1-2e3 and F1-H1, some marginal dampstaining, damaging upper margin and first few lines of text on 2i1.6, 2k5, 2l1, 2s1, 2zi, X2-3.) Contemporary calf gilt (worn, old repairs to spine). Provenance : inscription dated 1572 on pastedown. FIRST EDITION of Fernel's last work, finished and edited by Guillaume Plancy, his younger contemporary, follower and biographer. "On his deathbed Fernel was greatly worried that he had not found time to put the finishing touches to his Medicina . It fell upon Plancy to edit the full text of the Universa medicina (1567), which contained chapters of physiology, pathology, therapeutics, and such ... The important contribution was undoubtedly the "Physiologiae," in which he had noted peristalsis and the systole and diastole of the heart; he did not, however, realize that the veins and arteries were connected by capillaries. Also of interest is his notion that the veins hinder clotting. Fernel's anatomical observations, among them the earliest description of the spinal canal, were good and clearly presented, before or simultaneous with Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica (1543), the shadow of which may well have lain too heavily over significant contributions from contemporaries and predecessors. In medicine Fernel gave early descriptions of appendicitis and endocarditis' (DSB IV, p. 586). "In addition to the works included in the Medicina , Plancy added four books to Therapeutice from manuscripts left by Fernel and also added De abditis rerum causis , which had originally been intended to follow the Physiologiae . This first edition includes Plancy's introductory letter and the profile woodcut of Fernel from the 1554 Medicina with Plancy's Greek couplet beneath the portrait. It is in that edition that Fernel's description of "iliac passion" first appears. This is believed to be the first clinical account of acute appendicitis with intestinal perforation" ( Heirs of Hippocrates 220). NLM/Durling 1464 (lacking final leaf); Sherrington 57 JI; Waller 2997; Wellcome I:2202.
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