CHMIELECKI Marcin, PLATERUS Felix, Theses Physicae De Elementis in genere.

Theses Physicae De Elementis in genere.

Quas, [...]. In Alma & Peranti qua Universitate Basileensi, consentiente Amplißimo & Sapientißimo Senatu Philosophico, Praeside Viro Excellentißimo & Clarißimo, Dn. Felice Platero, Medic. Doctore & Physices Professore Celeber, Fautore & Preceptore suo perpetim honorando. Martinus Chmielecius Alsatia-Mülhusinus. Basileae 1644; Typis Georgi Deckeri. (20 x 15 cm), p. [6], binding pperg. contemporaneous.
(Estr. T. 14, this title not noted). The work contains 40 general physical theses on the elements. Marcin Chmielecki (1559-1632) - a native of Lublin, physician, botanist, professor of logic and physics; professor at the University of Basel. Felix Platter (1536-1614) - Swiss physician and writer. He ran a prosectorium and became a doctor of medicine in 1557. In the following years he became a city physician, and his responsibilities included overseeing public health and the city's hospitals. He was one of the pioneers of human anatomy. He became famous for digging up the bodies of a recently buried old woman and child in Montpellier on January 31, 1555, and performing an autopsy on the spot. Other achievements in the medical field included creating a classification of psychiatric diseases and describing cretinism.