Paterno, Bernardino ( -1592)

Lectiones Bernardini Paterni profitentis Theoricam primo loco ordinariam in Patavino Gymnasio in Prima Fen primi libri Avicennae anno 1578, tertio die novembris. With other lectures, etc. The lectures on Avicenna, are followed by others on 'Morbus Gallicus' on Galen's 'Methodus medendi', the 'Praesagia' and 'Prognostica' of Hippocrates, on putrid fevers, and on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The last section is on 'Melancholia hypochondriaca', in the middle of which is inserted a letter containing advice to a patient, in Italian and apparently by a different hand. The patient was suffering from an affection of the left ear. Produced in Padua.

1578, 1579

1 volume 213 ll. folio. 311/2 x 21 cm. Modern quarter calf binding. Some leaves are bound in wrong order.

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Purchased 1930.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).