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A follower of Paracelsis and physician of Henry IV in conflict with the University at Paris

QUERCETANUS, Josephus (or CHESNE, Joseph du, DUCHESNE, QUESNE or QUERCETANUS).
Traité familier de l'exacte preparation spagyrique des medicaments, pris d'entre les mineraux, animaux & vegetaux. Avec une breve response au livret de Jacques Aubert, touchant la generation & les causes des metaux.






Paris, Charles Morel, 1680. 8vo. Contemporary goatskin, spine interestingly gilt in compartments, with a - not the - title in the second compartment lettered in gold, sprinkled edges. 152, (16) pp., last lv. blank.

Rare French translation of one of the main works by Josephus Quercetanus (or Duchesne or Chesne; ca. 1544 - 1609), which originally appeared in Lyon with Joannes Lertotius in 1575 under the title: De exquisita mineralium, animalium et vegetabilium medicamentorum spagyrica praeparatione et usu, perspicua tractatio. This work was preceded by Quercetanus's answer to Jacob Aubert: Ad Jacobi Auberti Vindonis De ortu et causis metallorum contra chymicos explicationem Josephi Quercetani (Durling 1289). An English translation of both works was published in London in 1591 (Durling 1290).
Quercetanus studied in Geneva, receiving his M.D. degree in Basel in 1573. He was a follower of the theories of Paracelsis and became in 1575 involved in a controversy with Jacques Aubert who had attacked the Paracelsists in his De Metallorum ortu et causis. In 1593 he went to Paris and became physician to king Henry IV. As a result, but also because his vanity, his scorn for other physicians and his charlatanism, he became one of the most well-known physicians in Paris. In the early years of the 17th century he got in many conflicts with the medical faculty of the University at Paris. Many of his books were condemned.
The present work is on the legitimate preparation of the medicaments of dogmatic medicine. In his preface he added to the three sects of empirics, methodics and dogmatics a fourth called spagiric, which he said was new  to some persons but to followers of the Hermetic art was most ancient.

Good copy.- (Some insignificant waterstaining).
Thorndike VI, p. 247-251; cf. Durling, Cat. of sixteenth cent. book in the Nat. Libr. of medicine, nrs. 1289-90.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  France  Medicine  Pharmacy 

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