Johannes Oosterdyk Schacht - Institutiones medicinae...

Johannes Oosterdyk Schacht. Practical Medicine for the use of students, mainly, reduced to epitomes and published. Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht], Ioannes Paulus Krausium, 1753, (4) ff., 287 pp. (4) ff. One volume in-8vo (220x170 mm), full calf, decorated spine with raised bands, red morocco title piece, red edges (bound in the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and spine, headcap cropped. Pages browned. Original edition Manual of practical medicine and pathology, intended for teaching. The table of the text reveals chapters devoted in particular to fevers, eruptive diseases such as smallpox, scurvy, pulmonary tuberculosis, diseases of the heart and of the digestive tract, renal and urinary diseases, gonorrhea, as well as various neurological disorders. Schacht lays out the symptoms and manifestations of the diseases, their supposed causes, and the therapeutic means employed by eighteenth-century medicine.

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