[MEDICINE] - FUCHS (Leonhart) - De curandi ratione libri octo, causarum signorumque catalogum breuiter continentes, partim olim conscripti, & nunc postremùm recognit, multisque locis aucti: partim recens adiecti [...] Accessit quoque locuples rerum & uerborum memorabilium Index - Basileae [Basel] ; Johan Oporinus, 1568 - 1 volume In-8° (16,50x11 cm) - [16], 727, [1 blank], [31], [1 blank] pages - 1st endpapers weakened with small lacks, title somewhat soiled, numerous old marginal annotations (some cut by the binder), some clear and small scattered halos, leaf of pages 63-64 torn with small marginal loss, a few very small scattered and marginal wormholes - 8 woodcut plates out of the text, 1 woodcut in text page 721 (miscalculated 719) - 17th century soft ivory vellum binding (slightly rubbed and partially missing at the first spine, small loss at the first board, traces of laces) - Smooth spine titled in black ink (partly faded, tears without loss) - 2 bookplates, one crossed out at the title, handwritten date at the bottom of the page: 1548 - A good copy of this Fuchs therapy manual, here in its final form incorporating the author's latest additions and revisions. The work developed from a book on therapies: De Medendis singularum humani corporis partium libri quatuor, published in Basel in 1539, immediately after Fuchs had completed his Greek edition of Galen. A fifth part, De medendis tumoribus praeter naturam, was added in 1542, when the book was reprinted by Johann Oporinus under the new title De Sanandis totius humani corporis libri quinque. Three other parts were prepared for the present edition, when the book was again given a new title. These new parts (Books VI-VIII) deal with the treatment of wounds, tumors, ulcers, fractures and dislocations, and are illustrated with 8 full-page woodcuts of surgical instruments copied from De chirurgia institutione (1543) by Jean Tagault - Uncommon.