HALLER, Method de Boerhaave, 2 vols., 1751
HERMANNI BOERHAAVE VIRI SUMMI, SUIQUE PRAECEPTORIS METHODUS STUDII MEDICI Emaculata & Accessionibus locupletata AB ALBERTO AB HALLER, Med. & Ph. D. Anat. Chir. Bot. in Georg. Aug. P. P. O. Consiliario Aul. & Archiatro Reg. & Elect. Praeside Regiae Societ. Scientiar. Gotting. Acad. Caefar. Natur. Curios. nec non Regg. Socc. & Acadd. Britann. Boruss. Suecic. & Upsal. Sodali. Reip. Bern. in Supr. Senatu CCviro. TOMUS PRIMUS and TOMUS SECUNDUS. AMSTELAEDAMI, Sumptibus JACOBI a WETSTEIN. M. DCC. LI.
Two full brown leather quarto volumes with gold text and ornamentation on spine. Five raised bands. Leather a bit scuffed and stained. Front hinges cracked externally. Rear hinges mostly intact. Interior hinges intact. Green ribbon page markers. Red page edges. Marbled end papers. Title pages in red and black. Engraved frontis and three folding engraved plates in vol 1. Decorative capitals. Yale Ex Library book plates on front paste downs. Library stamps on titles and fore-edges (faded) Some small marginal and gutter stains. Leaves variably but mildly toned. Some pencil notes on front blank of vol I. Mostly bright. Bindings tight. Two loose articles tucked inside each front cover (one on the influence of Boerhaave’s Institutiones Medicae by Fulton, the other on pulmonary function tests).
G-M 6830: “A greatly expanded version of Boerhaave's Methodus discendi medicinam (1726, G-M6746), resulting in a text perhaps triple or quadruple its original length. While Boerhaave frequently cited classic authors in his lectures, Haller added extensive bibliographical lists to each chapter, with some entries annotated, resulting in a subject bibliography of useful works to the student, including many 16th century books. As knowledge did not necessarily progress very rapidly at the time, it is unclear whether Haller regarded works published even two centuries earlier as historical classics, or as still useful for their scientific information, or as both. Lindeboom, Bibliographia Boerhaaviana (1959) No. 98.”
Boerhaave, 1668 to 1738, was a successor of Govert Bidloo and teacher of Albrecht von Haller. Hi sname remains immortalized in the diagnosis Boerhaave’s syndrome (esophageal rupture due to vomiting), and his Aphorisms are considered a medical classic.
Albrecht von Haller was a Swiss polymath, professor, physician, scientist, and poet who compiled four bibliographies on botany, surgery, medicine, and anatomy. Together they formed the most complete reference work of the time. His personal library of 15,000 volumes and 145 manuscripts sold in 1778 and was donated to the national library in Milan.
Vol I: ffep, blank, half title, frontis, title, (14), 572, blank, rfep. 3 plates. Vol II: ffep, blank, half title, title, 573-1118, (6), blank, rfep.
