Alchemy,Syphilis , Mercury. GORIS. Mercurius
Alchemy, Syphilis , Mercury. GORIS, Gerard. Mercurius Triumphator continens Argenti Vivi Historiam, Indolem, Praerogativas & Noxas in Morborum Chronicorum, praesertim in Luis Venereae Curatione. Accedit Nova hunc Morbum per Selectiora Specifica Curandi Methodus cum Litteris nonnullis ad Autorem conscriptis... Quibus brevissime annectitur De Curationibus Sympatheticis Tractatulus.
Leyden, Theodor Haak, 1717.
In,8vo piccolo, mm. 160 x 100. Leg. mezza pelle inizi XIX secolo e cartonato marmorizzato, titoli e filetti in oro al dorso. Pp. 24, 252, 20. Carta brunita soprattutto nellultima parte, ma buon esemplare.
Prima ed unica edizione di questopera rara dedicata agli usi terapeutici del mercurio per la cura della lue venerea ed altre malattie; i primi capitoli sono anche di interesse alchemico ("de Chrysopoeia, seu Transmutatione, ejusque possibilitate, tam vera quam dolosa"). Duveen, p. 264: "The present work, though mainly medical in character, is of alchemical interest on account of his chapter... which deals entirely with transmutation, and of the tract: "De curatione sympathetica sive magnetica which is added to it". Lautore fu medico a Leida, ed esaminatore di chirurgia e ostetricia.
Condition Report: Small 8vo mm. 160 x 100, pp. XXIV, 252, 19, 1. Half calf binding, golden title and rules on the spine. Title page in red and black ink. Spread browning in the last leaves, nice and interesting specimen.
First and only edition of this rare work dedicated to therapeutic uses of mercury for the treatment of syphilis and other venereal diseases; The first chapters are also of interest alchemical ("de Chrysopoeia, seu Transmutatione, ejusque possibilitate, real tam quam willful").Duveen, p. 264: "The present work, though mainly medical in character, is of alchemical interest on account of his chapter... which deals entirely with transmutation, and of the tract: "De curatione sympathetica sive magnetica which is added to it". The author was a doctor in Leiden, and examiner of surgery and obstetrics.
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Alchemy, Syphilis , Mercury. GORIS, Gerard. Mercurius Triumphator continens Argenti Vivi Historiam, Indolem, Praerogativas & Noxas in Morborum Chronicorum, praesertim in Luis Venereae Curatione. Accedit Nova hunc Morbum per Selectiora Specifica Curandi Methodus cum Litteris nonnullis ad Autorem conscriptis... Quibus brevissime annectitur De Curationibus Sympatheticis Tractatulus.
Leyden, Theodor Haak, 1717.
In,8vo piccolo, mm. 160 x 100. Leg. mezza pelle inizi XIX secolo e cartonato marmorizzato, titoli e filetti in oro al dorso. Pp. 24, 252, 20. Carta brunita soprattutto nellultima parte, ma buon esemplare.
Prima ed unica edizione di questopera rara dedicata agli usi terapeutici del mercurio per la cura della lue venerea ed altre malattie; i primi capitoli sono anche di interesse alchemico ("de Chrysopoeia, seu Transmutatione, ejusque possibilitate, tam vera quam dolosa"). Duveen, p. 264: "The present work, though mainly medical in character, is of alchemical interest on account of his chapter... which deals entirely with transmutation, and of the tract: "De curatione sympathetica sive magnetica which is added to it". Lautore fu medico a Leida, ed esaminatore di chirurgia e ostetricia.
Condition Report: Small 8vo mm. 160 x 100, pp. XXIV, 252, 19, 1. Half calf binding, golden title and rules on the spine. Title page in red and black ink. Spread browning in the last leaves, nice and interesting specimen.
First and only edition of this rare work dedicated to therapeutic uses of mercury for the treatment of syphilis and other venereal diseases; The first chapters are also of interest alchemical ("de Chrysopoeia, seu Transmutatione, ejusque possibilitate, real tam quam willful").Duveen, p. 264: "The present work, though mainly medical in character, is of alchemical interest on account of his chapter... which deals entirely with transmutation, and of the tract: "De curatione sympathetica sive magnetica which is added to it". The author was a doctor in Leiden, and examiner of surgery and obstetrics.
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