SAMMELBAND of four 18th-century Viennese medical tracts

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Lot 218 | SAMMELBAND of four 18th-century Viennese medical tracts
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SAMMELBAND of four 18th-century Viennese medical tracts

MOLINARI, Christoph (1723-1784). De miliarium exanthematum indole et tractatione disquisitio. Vienna: H.J. Krüchten, 1764.

[Bound first with:] HASENÖHRL, Johann Georg (1729-1796). Historia Medica Trium Morborum qui Anno 1760. Vienna: J.T. Trattner, 1761. [And:] STÖRCK, Anton von (1731-1803). Libellus quo demonstratur : stramonium, hyosciamum, aconitum ... Jungtur simul harum plantarum imagines ære excusæ. Vienna: J.T. Trattner, 1762. [And:] AUENBRUGGER, Leopold (1722-1809). Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo Abstrusos Interni Pectoris Morbos Detegendi. Vienna, J.T. Trattner, 1761.



Four important medical works, including Störck’s work on experimental pharmacology, and Auenbrugger’s observations on diagnosis of tuberculosis by use of percussive methods.



Four works in one volume, Octavo (197 x 115mm). I: 171pp. Wellcome IV. II: [16], 110pp. III: [4], 118 pp. 3 folding engraved plates; IV: 95pp. first edition, first issue, without errata printed on verso of F8). Garrison-Morton 2672; Norman I, 81; Heirs of Hippocrates 954; Wellcome II, 70. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine (extremities lightly rubbed).





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