TRALLES Balthasar Ludwig - Vera Patrem Patriae Annvente Divina Clementia, Sanvm Et Longa Evvm Praestandi Methodvs, Ex Pr...

TRALLES Balthasar Ludwig - Vera Patrem Patriae Annvente Divina Clementia, Sanvm Et Longa Evvm Praestandi Methodvs, Ex Praeceptis Omnis Aevi Diaeteticis, Atqve Recentissimis Artis Salvtaris Principiis Dedvcta. Vratislaviae 1767. svmptibvs Ioannic Ernesti Meyer. 4, p. 412. card binding. period.
E. 31, 283. Rubbing of spine and edges of covers, internally very good condition. Copperplate heraldic vignette before the text. Dedicated in print to King Stanislaw Augustus, a comprehensive work by Balthasar Tralles (1708-1797), a Wroclaw physician and scholar (also a poet). He studied in Leipzig and Leiden, later in Halle, where he received his doctorate in medicine and surgery. After practicing in Dresden for several years, he returned to his native Breslau. "In 1762 he did not accept the proposal of Stanislaw Leszczynski, who wanted to have him as his personal physician. In 1765-1767 he stayed in Warsaw as a physician at the court of Stanislaw Augustus. To the king he dedicated his work, written in 1767, "Vera Patrem Patriae ..." ("Health Councils of a Breslau Physician for the Polish King"), which is a collection of hygienic recommendations for Warsaw, extolling the virtues of the king in the introduction. He was a medical consultant to Empress Maria Theresa and Frederick the Great" (Wikipedia). "The text is full of praise for the king. In Chapter I he describes Stanislaw August's physical constitution and praises his beauty [...]. On p. 84 about the location of Warsaw and the Warsaw aura ([...] why the aura is bad: dirty gutters, Vistula floods, swamps and so on) [...]. On the bad way of burying the dead at churches (p. 149). How Warsaw workshops spoil the aura. About the bad influence of mines close to Warsaw (p. 170). About frosts and their ill effects on health (p. 200). Gout and rheumatism in Poland (p. 203). About hygienic dressing. On the ill effects of smoking coal (p. 246). About winds and their effects on health [...]. The work is written with great erudition, interspersed with quotations from historians and poets, but is not strictly scientific. Much in it is material on the health relations of Warsaw in the eighteenth century (Estreicher).