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(RHAZES). ARCOLANI, Giovanni, commentator. Commentaria in nonum librum Rasis ad regem Almansorem .. Accedit ejusdem opusculum de fluxibus alvi suo loco restitutus ... Omnia vero haec & diligentius castigata sunt quam fuerint antea, & ... instrumentis chirurgicis ab auct ore citatis exornata. Venice, heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1542.Folio, 1 l(b) + 1t + 1 + 9(ind.) + 1(drawings) + 509 + 1(device) + 1 l(b), with printer's device on title, repeated at colophon, with 14 woodcut illustrations of surgical and dental instruments on one page; contemporary vellum.A rare edition of Arcolani's commentary on the ninth book of Rhazes' Liber ad Almansorem (with the text). The first edition of the Latin text was Verona or Padua, 1480, the first edition with illustrations of instruments was at Basle, 1540. Arcolani was born in Verona c. 1390. He made rapid progress in medical studies and by 1412 was professor of medicine at Bologna. He was a successful and innovative surgeon, particularly in dentistry, and the culmination of his work was this commentary on Rhazes (also known under the title Practica); he also wrote a commentary on Avicenna (see No. 26 above)."In this most valuable work of [Arcolani] there are several chapters relative to diseases of the teeth; and this subject is treated rather fully and with great accuracy ... [this] work is not only noteworthy because it mentions gold filling for the first time, but also because in it are given the drawings of three dental instruments, among them the pelican (here called pulicamum)" (Guerini, A history of dentistry, pp. 153-57).Durling 250; Garrison-Morton 3666.84; IA 106.905; Wellcome 383; NUC records no location other than the National Library of Medicine (Durling): not in Adams, not in the British Library., Enth. außerdem: De fluxibus. |
