LEMNIUS Levinus. Della complessione del corpo humano libro due, sommamente necessarii a tutti coloro, che studiano alla sanit libri due ...
Venice, Domenico Nicolino, 1564 8vo: device on title-page, gothic type. Contemporary limp vellum, lacks ties. First appearance of the Italian translation; the work in its original Latin version had been published in Antwerp three years earlier. It was aimed specifically at the general public as an aid to self-diagnosis and a guide to the rules for the maintaining 'healthe of bodye and healthe of minde'. It became very popular and was reprinted both in its original form and in this Italian version as well as an English translation by Thomas Newton with the title The Touchstone of Complexions... containing most ready tokens whereby everyone may perfectly try and thorowly know as well as the exact state, habit...of his body outwardly as also the inclinations, affections, emotions and desires of his minde inwardly. Andreas tells us that Lievens Lemmens, a pupil of Vesalius and Gesner, practised medicine and was popular with his patients whom he cheered with his jokes and funny stories. Durling 2769; cf. Hunter & Macalpine, History of Psychiatry for the English text.
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