WEPFER (Jean-Jacques). Observationses medico-practicae... - Lot 234 - Kâ-Mondo

WEPFER (Jean-Jacques). Observationses medico-practicae de affectibus capitis internis & externis Schaffouse, Ziegler, 1727, in-4, [15] f., 984 p., 20 f., portr., fig., period ivory vellum, smooth spine, title in ink, red edges (browning and sporadic small ink spots). Original edition of this collection of observations by the famous Swiss anatomist Jean-Jacques Wepfer "one of the best observers and one of the most judicious experimenters of the 17th century. These works are of great value" (Dezeimeris: Historical Dictionary of Medicine). Wepfer discovered the duodenal glands and his research on the nervous system and apoplexy is important. Illustrated with a copperplate portrait of the author engraved by Dieter Seiller, a vignette with the title, a full-page copperplate engraving showing the cutting of an aorta, a headband and woodcut lamp bases.