Ionn Fenelli ambiana, Universa Medicina. Primium quidem studio & diligentia, Guiljelmi Plantii, Cennomanni elimata. Nunc autem notis, observationibus, & remedis secretis Ionn. & Othonis Heurni, Ultraject. et Aliorum Praestantibimorum Medicorum scholiis

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illustrata. Cvi Accedvnt Casus & observationes rariores, Quas Cl. D. D. Otho Heurnius ..., 2 vols. Traiecti ad Rhenum (Utretcht): Typis Gisberti a Zijll, & Theordori ab Ackrsdijck, 1656. 4to. Contemporary calf (spine extremities & corner points worn). Spines gilt with raised bands and morocco titling-labels. With frontispiece to Vol. I, and 2 engrv. title-vignettes. Printed in double-column. Contents fine and complete. NOTE: French physician, astronomer, and mathematician, also known as 'the modern Galen', Jean Fernel, 1497-1558, was one of the greatest contemporaries of the famous Renaissan physician Paracelcus. Born in Amiens, he became Professor of Medicine in Paris and physician to Henri II of France. He played an important part in loosening the long-standing hold of Galen on medical thought, providing an important treatise on physiology (1542) and the first systematic essay on pathology (1554), in which he methodically discusses the diseases of each organ. Indeed he invented the term 'physiology' and 'pathology' and his writings, here collected, remained the standard text for two centuries.