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With woodcut printer's device on title. 8 leaves, 582 pp., 28 leaves. Thick small 8vo. Contemp. leather, with a dark-stamped panel with center ornaments, angle fleurons and acorns, spine in 4 compartments with the same fleurons. Engr. heraldic exlibris on front pastedown. Frankfurt am Main, Palthen for heirs of Peter Fischer, 1598. The main work of Lemnius (1505-1568), Dutch physician and philosopher from Ziericksee in Zeeland, was often published and translated in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is, despite its title, mostly a medical and pharmaceutical compendium, offering advice on hygiene concerning all aspects of life, like living arrangements, food preparation, slaughtering, drinking water, wine, etc. Lemnius' views are not entirely free of superstition, but he still deserves to be regarded as the foremost hygienist of his century. He had studied medicine with Vesalius in Louvain, and was a friend of Dodonaeus and Conrad Gesner. - Somewhat browned thoughout, corner torn off p. 147/48 without text loss. - Wellcome 3704; Durling 2776; Rosenthal, Bibl. Magica, 2959; Hirsch III, 666; STC (German) 493; Adams L-420; Simon, Bibl. Bacchica II, 399; VD 16 ZV 16010; not in Caillet, Graesse, Duveen, Ferguson, or Ackermann. SCIENCE: MEDICINE ; SCIENCE: OCCULTA & WITCHCRAFT ;