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Causes and cures for flatulence

FIENUS, Joannes.
De flatibus humanus corpus molestantibus, commentarius nouus ac singularis. In quo flatuum natura, causae, et symptomata describuntur, eorumque remedia facili  & expedia methodo indicantur.

Two woodcut devices on title and at the end.

Two woodcut devices on title and at the end.

Two woodcut devices on title and at the end.



Antwerp, Jan van Ghelen for Henricus Henricius, 1582. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink on spine. Two woodcut devices on title and at the end. 215, (5), (4 blank) pp. (A8-N8, O6).

First edition of a treatise on flatulent gas and its discomforts in the human body, written by the Antwerp physician Joannes Fienus (or Fyens) (d. 1585). Fienus was born in Turnhout, Belgium, and probably studied medicine at the University at Leuven. He describes the causes of the winds a.o. particular food and climate and investigates the organs and places where the gas emerges. He also suggests a wide range of cures and remedies for the flatulence. The treatise was reprinted at Heidelberg in 1589 and 1592. In Amsterdam it was published  by J. Janssonius in 1643.

Good copy, with ownership's entries in ms. in ink on title ''M. Hyacinth, H. Pietrynieez & Pauli Manfred''.- (Top of spine sl. dam., spine restored, some minor browning).
Nave, De geneeskunde in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (1475-1660), 20; Belgica Typographica 1140 (1); Bibl. Medica Neerl. I 261; Durling 1528; BN Paris; not in Wellcome I, Adams, BL London.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Antwerp  Belgicana  Medicine 

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