Purmann,M.G.

The Right and True Field Surgeon or: The Right and True Field Surgeon's Art: In which... how all injuries of the entire human body can be... can be happily cured... Together with the addition of the plague barber. 6th ed. Ffm. and Lpz, Rohrlach Witwe u. Erben 1708. With gest. 15 pp, 480 pp, 1 pp, 208 pp. (Strong traces of use). Blake 366 - Purmann (1649-1711), war surgeon and personal physician to the Elector of Brandenburg, was one of the most important surgeons of his time. He was the city wound surgeon in Halberstadt from 1679 and fought the plague there, which he himself contracted in 1681. Since 1690 he was surgeon and city physician in Breslau (see ADB XXVI, 732). - Spotty and browned, front barely trimmed, endpapers and inner cover with inscription - ╔Dabei: Ders.╗ Fumfftzig Sonder und wunderbahre Schuß-Wunden Curen. Ebda. 1693. fragment, missing the le. ca. 120 pages.