ARETAEUS OF CAPPADOCIA.


HENISCH, GEORG. 1549-1618. Editor. Aetiologica, simeiotica et therapeutica morborum acutorum & diuturnorum.... Augsburg: Georg Willer and David Franck, 1603. Folio (305 x 206 mm). Woodcut device on title. Printed in two columns in Greek and Latin. Contemporary vellum, some wear to spine, some staining. Provenance: John Latham (1761-1843) physician-extraordinary to the Prince of Wales (signature on front free endpaper and marginalia). Later edition. The works of Areteus of Cappadocia, originally translated by Junius Paulus Crassus and published in Venice in 1552, are corrected here in Henisch's edition, using excerpts from Galen, Alexander Trallianus, and Paulus Aegineta. "Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect" (Garrison-Morton). This copy, formerly the property of physician John Latham, includes his inked margin notes. The editor Georg Henisch (1549-1618), an Augsburg physician, was also an astronomer and made contributions to the calendar reform of Gregory XIII. See Garrison-Morton 22; Krivatsy 380.