Antique volumes “Istituzioni di medicina pratica”, antique book by Borsieri

Antique volumes «Istituzioni di medicina pratica»

A work of great historical and scientific worth, the Istituzioni di medicina pratica are an important witness to the teaching of medicine between the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century.

The work, attributed to the physician Giovanni Battista Borsisti, gathers lessons first written in Latin and later translated into Italian with clarity and precision. The texts join clinical experience to theoretical reflection, standing as a link between the Hippocratic tradition and the new directions of European medicine of the time.

The edition is enriched by the Prolegomeni clinici by the Cavaliere Val Luigi Brera, which set out the founding principles of the clinical method with great teaching rigour.

Main features

• Title: Istituzioni di medicina pratica
• Author: Giovanni Battista Borsisti
• Additional contents: Prolegomeni clinici by Val Luigi Brera
• Language: Latin (original) and Italian translation
• Type: historic medical and scientific work

Composition

• set made up of 3 volumes
• complete and consistent texts
• contents ranging over physiology, pathology and practical medicine

Edition and period

• published between 1837 and 1838
• Sansone Coen press, Florence
• a witness to the medical school of the time

Appearance

• natural brown tones
• refined quality of printing
• editorial care over detail

Use
Refined still life showing fruit, flowers and household objects set on a wooden table.

• collectors of antique books
• readers with an interest in the history of medicine
• studies and libraries

A work that brings together cultural, historical and collecting worth.

One of a kind

• complete set in three volumes
• period edition
• part of the «Vintage Memoire Merlin» collection