ARGENTERIO, Giovanni. De Consultationibus Medicis sive (ut vulgus vocat) de Collegian di ratione Liber.
Woodcut vignette on title. 190, [1] pp. 8vo, cont. limp vellum (a few unimportant marginal stains), ties lacking. Florence: L. Torrentinus, 1551. First edition of a very popular work which enjoyed several reprints within six years. Argenterio (1513-72), a native of Piedmont, practiced in Lyon and Antwerp before returning to Italy where he taught at Pisa, Naples, Rome, Mantua, and Torino. His fame as a teacher was great because he ventured to attack Galen and was almost Paracelsian in his attitudes. This volume contains a foreword by Laurentius Gryllus (1484-1560), the Bavarian physician and botanist who taught at Ingolstadt. Gryllus praises Argenterio as being neither an Arabist nor too conservative a classicist in medicine and as one who had ventured to strike out for himself. Fine copy. Durling 261. Hirsch, I, pp. 192-93. Thorndike, VI, pp. 226-27.
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