Abulcasis. Liber theoricae necnon practicae Alsaharavii ... qui vulgo Acararius dicitur. Augsburg, Sigismund Grimm and Marc Wirsung, 1519. Folio,... Show moreAbulcasis. Liber theoricae necnon practicae Alsaharavii ... qui vulgo Acararius dicitur. Augsburg, Sigismund Grimm and Marc Wirsung, 1519. Folio, 2 + 1t + 11 + 319 (in roman) + 1 (device) + 3 + 3 leav (bind), title printed in red and black and with a fine large woodcut depicting six physicians at a table in disputation over a large book opened before them by Hans Burgkmair, fine woodcut printer's device at end; contemporary pigskin backed wooden boards, the spine overlaid with eighteenth century calf, gilt. First edition of the medical and therapeutical section of Abu l-Qasim al-Zahrawi's medical encyclopaedia, Kitab al-Tasrif, in the Latin version by Gerard of Cremona. "Completed about 1000 A. D., [the Kitab al-Tasrif] was the result of almost fifty years of medical education and experience. In it he discussed not only medicine and surgery, but also midwifery, pharmaceutical and cosmetic preparations, materia medica, cookery and dietetics, weights and measures, technical terminology, medical chemistry, therapeutics, and psychotherapy. DSB, 14, 584-85; Sezgin, III, pp. 323-35. Bird 2435; Durling 21; Garrison-Morton 3048 (the earliest description of haemophilia): IA 100.199; Proctor 10896; Waller 175; Wellcome 11. Main Heritage Shelves General R128.3 .Z34 1519 Book Item-ID: i10137026 BIB-ID: 1015338 Show less
