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Lazare Riviere's Opera Medica Universa

Title: Opera Medica Universa
Author: Rivière, Lazare
Description: [viii], 604, [36] pp. Title-page printed in red and black, vignette on title-page. (Folio) 14x8½, full period calf with raised bands, marbled pastedowns.First published in 1663, "Riviere's Opera was very successful and continued to be reissued well into the eighteenth century. His clear style, logical reasoning and presentation contributed greatly to the wide acclaim his work received. Institutionum medicarum was arranged in five books covering physiology, pathology, symptomatology, health and hygiene, and therapeutics. In addition, he has included another two hundred case histories contributed by thirteen colleagues and as well a group of thirty-seven case histories of rare diseases and conditions which he had been successful in curing" Garrison-Morton 2727 (1674).
Heading: Place Published: Lyons
Publisher: Anisson and Joannis Posüel
Date Published: 1698