[Arab world]. [MEDECINE]. - Lot 148

[Arab world]. [MEDECINE]. [Mélanges de médecine, XVIIIe-XIXe s.]. Collection of 6 pieces printed in 1 volume in-8. Nineteenth-century fawn half-basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt filleting (headpieces and spine rubbed, a few browned sections and a few foxing depending on paper quality). - PEDIATRICS. MERCURIALE Girolamo. Nomothelasmus seu ratio lactandi infantes ... (1)-XIV-47 pp. with fine margins. Treviso, 1778. Reprint of the Latin text of Mercuriale's method of suckling infants (Padua, 1552). Italian preface. Title and first leaf of text incomplete, small angular loss to first ff. -ETHICS. BOERNER Friderich. Super locum Hippocratis in Jurejurandomaxime vexatum meditationes. Leipzig, Stopffel, 1751, (6)-22 pp. with baroque woodcut head and tailpieces. Meditations on the passage that most troubled Hippocrates for the Pledge of Allegiance. - RASORI. Analisi del preteso genio d'Ippocrate. Dicorso Milan, Andrea Mainardi, 1799. (4)-86-(1) pp. Criticism of Hippocrates. - HONAIN BEN ISHAK. The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, translated into Arabic. Calcutta, Education Press, 1832. Title and disclaimer in English, then Arabic text only. Hunayn ibn Ishaq (803-873) Syriac physician and translator from Baghdad, who served the caliphs in the 9th century. - SAALMAN, Ferdinand. Descriptio rheumatismi acuti ... Münster, Philippus Henricus Perrenon, 1789. (2)-180 pp. Clarifications of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. - HIPPOCRATE, De Aëre aquis et locis liber... Hamburg, Perthesius et Besserius, 1833. Edition by Christian Petersen. Latin preface and Greek text only.