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MEDICINE]. ARETAEUS of Cappadocia (fl. ca. A.D. 50). De causis et signis acutorum et diuturnorum morborum, libri quatuor , in Greek and Latin. - De curatione acutorum et diuturnorum morborum, libri quatuor , in Greek and Latin. Edited by John Wigan (1696-1739). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1723. Large 2 o (415 x 257 mm). Roman, italic and greek types. 237 leaves. Type-ornament headpieces and engraved tailpieces. (Some bleed-through of pastedowns at front and back.) Contemporary mottled sheep (joints starting, extremities slightly worn). First edition by Wigan. Boerhaave used this edition in the preparation of his Aretaeus. Osler 328; Wellcome, p. 54; Norman 64. -- ARETAEUS of Cappadocia. Of the causes and signs of acute and chronic disease . Translated from Greek into English by Thomas Forbes Reynolds (1799-1865). London: William Pickering, 1837. 8 o (222 x 140 mm). 85 leaves. Contemporary green fine-diaper embossed cloth, hand-lettered paper spine label (corners bumped). Provenance : T.J.D. (bookplate with monogram and line drawing of Greek vase). First edition of Reynold's translation. Keynes Pickering , p. 50; Wellcome, p. 54; Norman 65. -- ARETAEUS of Cappadocia. The Extant Works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian , in Greek and English. Edited and translated by Francis Adams (1796-1861). London: The Sydenham Society, 1856. 8 o (219 x 139 mm). 267 leaves. Publisher's embossed green cloth, gilt-stamped coat-of-arms in center of each cover, gilt-lettered spine (partially unopened, short tears in the blank margins of several leaves, corners bumped, headcap and joints slighly frayed). Provenance : Joseph Jones, M.D. (1833-96), Confederate military surgeon (signature dated "Augusta, Georgia, July 1866" on flyleaf; bookplate, "Liberty County, Ga."; bookplate, "New Orleans, 1870"). First edition of Adam's translation. Garrison-Morton 22; Norman 66. -- CAELIUS AURELIANUS (fl. ca. A.D. 420). De morbis acutis & chronicis libri VIII . Edited by Johann Conrad Amman (1669-ca. 1730) with notes by Theodore Jansson van Almeloveen (1637-1712). Venice: Francesco Storti, 1757. 4 o (244 x 178 mm). 288 leaves. Title page printed in red and black. Woodcut title-page vignette, ornamental woodcut initials. One folding engraved plate. (Light foxing throughout.) Contemporary limp boards, preserving all deckle edges, hand-lettered spine title and later paper spine label. Provenance : Vincenzo Chiarugi (1759-1820, psychiatrist (bookplate). Norman 388. For works by Chiarugi, see Norman 474-479. -- ORIBASIUS (ca. 325-400). Collectorum medicinalium libri XVII . Translated from Greek into Latin by Giambattista Rasario (1517-78). Venice: Paulus Manutius [ca. 1554]. 8 o (156 x 97 mm). Collation: * 4 ; A-Z 8 a-z 8 & 8 . 372 leaves (of 380, lacking quire q). Printer's woodcut device on title page, ornamental woodcut initials. (Waterstain to outer edges and lower portion of textblock.) Contemporary limp vellum, overlapping edges, evidence of two pairs of ties (frayed at fore-edges, without the ties, front flyleaf torn with stains from tape repair). Provenance : deleted signature on title page; scattered early marginalia. Adams O-268; NLM/Durling 3405; Renouard, p. 265; Waller 7002; Wellcome 4646; Norman 1611. Oribasius of Pergamum, physician to the Emperor Julian the Apostate, compiled several medical works at the suggestion of Julian, who was concerned to propagate the writings and the knowledge of pagan Antiquity in response to the growing Christianization of the Roman Empire. Oribasius' Collectiones medicae , which survives only in part, is important because it preserves excerpts and paraphrases of earlier medical authors whose works are known only from this source. (5)