WELSCH (Georg Hieronymus).

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WELSCH (Georg Hieronymus).
Exercitatio De vena medinensi, [...] Sive De dracunculis Veterum. Augsburg, Theophilus Goebel, 1674. In-4, marbled half-basan, smooth spine with gold filets, fawn title coin, edges speckled with red (early 19th century binding). Garrison-Morton, 5336.1. First edition of the first monograph on dracunculiasis, a tropical disease caused by the Guinea worm (or Medina worm) that lodges under the skin. It is the work of the German physician Georg Hieronymus Welsch (1624-1677), who based his work on the Arabic writings of Avicenna. Printed in Roman, Greek and Arabic characters, it is illustrated with a portrait of Claudia Félicité, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire Germanic (the dedicatee), a beautiful allegorical frontispiece and 13 plates engraved on copper by Melchior Haffner: one of them, very curious, shows the extraction of the worm from a patient's leg by a Persian surgeon. Burnishing of the notebooks, inherent to the poor quality of the paper used in Germany at that time (freckles-free plates). Yellowish stain left by a paper repair on the last two sheets, with no gaps. Rubbed binding.
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