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Gynaeciorum siue De mulierum tum communibus, tum grauidarum, parientium, et puerperarum affectibus & morbis, : libri Graecorum, Arabum, Latinorum veterum et recentium quotquot extant, partim nunc primùm editi, partim verò denuò recogniti, emendati, necessarijs imaginibus exornati, & optimorum scriptorum autoritatibus illustrati
Gift of The Longo Family Trust, Lawrence D. and Betty Jeanne Longo, Trustees, 2015. Inscription on title page: Christus ...[?] Casparij Blecken M.D. ex phys. ...[?] 1674. Bookplate on front pastedown: Alfred M. Hellman.
Dimensions
34 cm (Folio)
Associated people
Spach, Israel, (1560-1610,)
Zetzner, Lazarus, (1551-1616,)
Wolf, Hans Kaspar, (1532-1601.)
Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, (-1013?)
Considered to be the first encylopedia of gynecology and obstetrics. Complied by Conrad Gesner, but completed, with additional material, by Hans Wolf and published one year after Gesner's death. Text contains the first editon of Moschion. Cf. Garrison-Morton (5th edition), 6011.
