Two Books of Medical Animadversions and Cautions, Added to Seven Others Already Published

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Original title: Animadversionum, & Cautionum Medicarum Libri Duo, Septem aliis iam editis additi A Neo-Latin medical volume adding two books — an eighth on the cure of wounds and a ninth on the compounding of medicines — to a series of seven books of medical animadversions and cautions previously issued at Milan in 1626. Written by the chief medical officer (Protophysicus Generalis) of the State of Milan, the eighth book defends the dignity of manual operation, argues that healing proceeds from the body's innate heat conserved beneath an undisturbed covering, condemns tents, pledgets and hasty trepanation, and grounds its claims in four decades of practice at the Ospedale Maggiore, with numbered cautions on simple wounds, cavities, nerve injuries, and head wounds. The ninth book, arising from the author's duty of visiting apothecaries' shops in a province lacking a fixed antidotary, offers aphoristic corrections on the collection, washing, decoction, trituration and compounding of medicines, together with animadversions on Mesue's pills, syrups and decoctions and on contested simples such as doronicum, opium preparations, Arabic drug nomenclature, balsams and chermes, resolving disputed readings by philology where possible and by official decree where not. Bound with the volume is a separately titled treatise, the De naevis liber (Padua, 1628), which reads moles as natural signs, advances the claim that a mole on the forehead has a companion in the thorax, sets out a metrology of facial proportion, and disclaims any astrological intent. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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