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Half-title, title, 3 unn. leaves, 332 pp.; title, 70 pp., 8 unn. leaves index, 13 unn. extra blank leaves. Narrow 12mo. Contemp. vellum (somewhat browned). Lyon, Paolo Frambotto, 1660. Nice edition of these two works by Jean Prévost (1585-1631) from Dilsberg in Baden, since 1617 professor of medicine in Padua. The "Medicina pauperum", a work on general health care for the poor, gives a broad survey of common diseases and remedies. "De Venenis et Alexipharmacis" treats venoms and their antidotes. The printer Frambotto was active between 1634 and 1694, mostly in Padua, but also in Venice and Milan; Lyon might be a fictitious imprint. This edition is only recorded as a microfilm in the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, not in BL, BN or Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. - Old ownership entry on title, old ms. note on paste-down, initial on flyleaf, marginal tear in pp. 39/40 affecting a few letters, scattered ink annotations. - Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimées en France au XVIIe siècle, tome XXI Lyon, par Marie-Anne Merland, 4e partie, Frambotto 1660 ("Est-ce une adresse fictive?"); cf. Hirsch IV, 624. This edition not in Wellcome, Waller, Osler, Lesky. SCIENCE: MEDICINE ;