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Rare Dutch translation of an important French medical work

RANCHIN, François.
Heelkonstige geschillen, wegens de werken van meester Guido de Gauliac. Geschift in drie deelen. Het eerste deel, handelende over het byzonder hoofd-stuk, d'ontleeding  en de geswellen. Het tweede en derde deel, handelende  over de wonden, sweeren, been-breuken, uyt-leedingen over de seste handeling, en over de tegen-giften. Beschreven  in 't Fransch, ... en nu vertaalt door Aarnout Van Wymis.

First title in red & black, part-title with woodcut ornament, woodcut initials and end-pieces.

First title in red & black, part-title with woodcut ornament, woodcut initials and end-pieces.



Amsterdam, Jacob Benjamin, 1661-2. 3 parts (8 books) in 1 vol. Sm. 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum with title in ink on spine, blue speckled edges. First title in red & black, part-title with woodcut ornament, woodcut initials and end-pieces. (8), 358; (4), 466 (8) pp.

Rare original and only Dutch edition of François Ranchin's (1564-1641) medical dispute concerning the works of Guy de Chauliac (ca. 1300-1368), who was the most eminent of surgeons during the European Middle Ages. In his book Questions en chirurgie, sur la chirurgie de maistre Guy de Chauliac (1600), Ranchin extensively discusses matters on dissection, tumours, injuries of all sorts, shot wounds, festering wounds, fractures of bones, anatomy, smallpox and antidotes. The French physician Ranchin also was a professor at the University of Montpellier and wrote on surgery, pharmacology and the plague. The work is translated by Aarnout van Wymis, who was a physician ('Heel-meester') healer in Amsterdam.
Part 2-3 with a separate title: Francois Zanchin (sic!), Heelkonstige geschillen wegens 't overige over de werken van meester Guido de Gauliac, het tweede en derde deel. Over de wonden, sweeren, beenbreuken, uytleedingen over de zeste handeling en over de tegen-giften ... Amsterdam, Jacob Benjaminsz. 1661. The subdivision of the work is complicated. Part 1 contains book 1-3, each subdivided in resp. 1, 2 and 3 subdivisions (snijdingen); part 2-3 contains book 4-8 (book 7 in 2 parts), each with resp. 3, 2, 2, 4, 1 and 3 subdivisions (the 4th subdivision of the first part of book 7 (pp. 373-86) erroneously referred to as the first part of book 6).

Fine copy.
Krivatsy 9283; BMN I, p. 296; Catalogus bibliothecae medicae Cornelii Henrici à Roy (Amsterdam 1813), part IV, no. 10986; not in Garrison & Morton, nor Bierens de Haan and Norman.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Anatomy  Dutch  Medicine 

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