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218 - VARANDAL, Jean.
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VARANDAL, Jean. Tractatus de elephantiasi seu lepra, item de lue venerea, et hepatitide, seu hepatis. [.] Published for the first time. Geneva, Pierre and Jacob Chouët, 1620. Small 8vo, (3)-174-(2) pp.; (7)-167 pp.; (19)-511-(4) pp. and (7)-134-(2) pp. Soft contemporary vellum with flaps, traces of leather laces (vellum tarnished and a small tear on one flap; paper browned mainly in the text and in a few quires entirely; some foxing). Description: A rare and important 17th-century medical treatise in Latin, in its original period vellum binding. By the French physician Jean de Varandal, also known as Varandée or de Varanda (1564–1617), professor and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Montpellier. Contains treatises on three major diseases of the period: Elephantiasis and leprosy (De elephantiasi seu lepra), syphilis (De lue venerea), and hepatitis and liver atony (De hepatitide, seu hepatis atonia). Bound together with other works by the same author in sequence, each with its own title page: *Tractatus de affections Renum & vesicæ* (Geneva, 1620); *De Morbis Mulierum LibIII* (Geneva, 1620) and *Formulæ Remediorum et externorum secundum genera & locos… Secunda editio* (Geneva, 1620). Woodcut vignettes on every page of text. Numerous old or contemporary hand-stamped seals and bookplates on the title page and on a few pages, including a seal bearing the monogram D/BYS/I.
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