1549 - Santorio,S.

Santorio,S. De statica medicina et de responsione ad staticomasticem aphorismorum sectionibus octo comprehensa.... Editio ultima correctior. 's Gravenhage/Hague, A.Vlacq 1657. (xx), 135 p. Modern halfcalf marbled boards. spine gilt. lett. some old handwriting on first pp., very good copy. Heirs no. 399. (ed. London, 1737).: "He experimented unceasingly, using himself as the subject of his experiments. The first edition of the present work appaered in 1614 and was an outstanding success, going through many editions and translations for a century and a half. The frontispiece is the famous balance seat in which Santorio sat in a suspended chair counterbalanced by weights so that he could determine the amount of respiration, (or, in his term, "insesible perspiration") which took place through the skin. B.M.N.I.p. 157. - 25.