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742 - La petite chirurgie chimique médicale.
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La petite chirurgie chimique médicale. Ou est traicté amplement de l'origine des maladies & curation d'icelles [...]. 8vo: [14]-333 [= 323]-[3] pp.; 1 fold. table (1 bl. missing in begin., sl. marg. damp stains throughout). - First edition of a treatise on spagyric medicine, a method developed by Paracelsus and his followers to improve the efficacy of existing medicines by separating them into their primordial elements (sulphur, mercury and salt) and then recombining them again. By Planis Campy (1589-1644), surgeon to Louis XIII and alchemist. - Ref. Krivatsy 9062. - Bibl. Walleriana 7488. - Cp. Wellcome IV:397 (1642 ed.). - Prov. 18th-c. ms. entries. - Joined: Turner, Daniel - Traité des maladies de la peau en général [...]. Paris, J. Barois, 1743. 2 vols, 12mo (erased stamps, sl. dampstaining in begin vol. I). Contemp. marbled calf (some sl. rubbing). First edition of the transl. by P. Boyer de Prébandier. (3 vol.)
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