Live auction - Lot 1054
[Medicine - Health care]
Matroosen gesontheyt, of Goede dispositie der zee-varende lieden. Handelende van velerley sieckten en gebreken der menschen in 't gemeen: maar bysonderlijck van de scheurbuyck of schimmel-sieckte, den zee-lieden meest onderworpen [...]. Vermeerdert met Putmans manuael.
Amsterdam, A. van den Heuvel, 1666
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
2 parts in 1 vol., 12mo: [8]-283-[20], 86-[9] pp. (some marg. dampst. and light browning throughout).
Contemp. vellum, flat spine (soiled).
Very rare Amsterdam ed. of this medical manual for sailors, focused on scurvy and fungal infections ("schimmel-sieckte") that affect mainly sailors, by the surgeon Vrolingh. Completed with a recipe book against the plague ("pest-boecxken") by E. Putman.
Ref. Cp. Krivatsy (1646 and 1680 ed.), Wellcome IV:449 (1663 ed.) - Not in STCN, Garrison & Morton, Lindeboom, Pauly.
Lot 1054
Matroosen gesontheyt, of Goede dispositie der zee-varende lieden. Handelende van velerley sieckten en gebreken der menschen in 't gemeen: maar bysonderlijck van de scheurbuyck of schimmel-sieckte, den zee-lieden meest onderworpen [...]. Vermeerdert met Putmans manuael.
VROLINGH, Abraham Lenertsz