1549 - Santorio, S.

Santorio, S. De statica medicina et de responsione ad staticomasticem aphorismorum sectionibus octo comprehensa.... Latest, corrected edition. 's Gravenhage/The Hague, A. Vlacq 1657. (xx), 135 pp. Modern half-calf with marbled boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Some old handwriting on the first few pages; a very good copy. Heirs no. 399. (ed. London, 1737).: "He experimented ceaselessly, using himself as the subject of his experiments. The first edition of the present work appeared in 1614 and was an outstanding success, going through many editions and translations for a century and a half. The frontispiece depicts 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”) that took place through the skin. B.M.N.I. p. 157. - 25.