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Seven treatises by an internationally renowned Dutch physician

HEURNIUS, Johannes.
Collection of Medical Works.

With woodcut printer's device in several variants on 7 titles, and 9 woodcut illustrations and 5 tables on 3 large folding plates in the second work.

Leyden, Ex Off. Plantiniana Raphelengius, 1608-1611. 7 works in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed, with gilt fillet borders on sides, with gilt ornament in centre of a wrath of laurels, red edges. With woodcut printer's device in several variants on 7 titles, and 9 woodcut illustrations and 5 tables on 3 large folding plates in the second work. Together ca. 1200 pp. in 2 columns.

The collection contains:
1. Institutiones Medicinae. Editio altera, priore emendatior, opera auctoris filii, Otthonis Heurnii. 1609. (8), 176, (8) pp. Krivatsy 5581; Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p. 170; Waller 4413 (ed. 1638).
2. Praxis Medicinae Nova Ratio: Qua Libris tribus Methodi ad Praxin Medicam, aditus facillimus aperitur ad omnes morbos curandos. Editio postrema, emendatior, opera auctoris filii Otthonis Heurnii. 1609. With 9 woodcuts of distilling apparatus in text, and 5 tables on 3 folding lvs. (8), 376, (12) pp. Krivatsy 5586; Bibl. Med. Neerl. II, p. 68 (ed. Sylvius of 1650). Simoni H 93 (with another work in incomplete collected ed.).
3. De Morbis Ventriculi Liber:Responsum ad Joannis Banchemium, Nullum esse aquae innatationum Lamiarum indicium: Oratio De Medicinae origine, Aesculapidum, ac Hippocratis stirpe & scriptis. Edidit post mortem auctoris eius fillius Ottho Heurnius. 1608. (12), 62, (2) pp. Krivatsy 5572 (with other works); Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p. 54; Simoni H 95.
4. De Peste Liber. 1611. 37, (3) pp. Krivatsy 5572 (with other works); Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p. 207.
5. De Morbis qui in Singulis Partibus Humani Capitis insidere conseverunt. Hic artificiosa methodo, & incredibili facilitate, morborum Ideae, Causae, & cuiusque causae morbificae, partisque agrae Signa, Prognoses, & Curatio Rationalis & Empirica graphice depinguntur. Cum Rerum & Locorum insignium utilissimo Indice. 1608. (8), 245, (11) pp. Krivatsy 5572 (with other works); Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p. 184.
6. De Morbis Oculorum, Aurium, Nasi, Dentium et Oris, Liber, Editus post mortem auctoris, ab eius filio Othone Heurnio. 1608. (8), 96, (6) pp. Krivatsy 5572 (with other works); Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p. 296; Waller 4411 (ed. 1602).
7. De Morbis Pectoris Liber, Editus post mortem auctoris, ab eius filio Othone Heurnio. 1608. (4), 127, (5) pp. Krivatsy 5572 (with other works); Bibl. Med. Neerl. I, p. 255; Waller 4412 (ed. 1602).

Interesting collection of early editions, contemporary brought together, of seven medical publications by Jan van Heurne (1543-1601), famous Dutch physician at the time, here posthumously published, mostly by the author's son Otto van Heurne. Born in Utrecht Jan van Heurne was taught at the Hieronymus School by Georgius Macropedius and went to study at Louvain and at Paris, where he became interested in surgery, so he proceeded to Italy to study at the famous medical centre Padua. Back home he practiced in Utrecht and became professor in medicine at the new University at Leyden.
He was the first to propose bedside teaching for medical students in Northern Europe. The University Board at Leyden however, delayed decision, and bedside teaching was only introduced after the author's death, during the son's, Otto van Heurne's, professorship at Leyden.
Heurnius' works were known at the time all over Europe, and were both much translated and republished. His "Opera Omnia" were published in 1611 and 1615, also edited by Otto van Heurne, in various compositions and editions of the separate works. Still today Heurne's works are fairly rare.

Good copy.- (Binding rubbed, spine dam. and rep.; old owner's ms. entries on title; few quires severily browned, due to the quality of the paper).

See also: Dictionary of Scientific Biography vol. 6, pp. 359-360.

Related Subjects: Medicine Schoolbooks

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