Usus opii salvbris el noxivs, in morborvm medela, solidis et certis principiis svperstrvctvs.
(Wyd.1). Sect[io] I. - qvarta et vltima. Vratislaviae (Wrocław) 1757-1760, svmptibvs Io. Ernst. Meyeri. (21.5 x 17.5 cm), p. [6], p. 374, [2]; p. [4], p. 356; p. [8], 272; p. [9], p. 248, p. [12], woodcut vignettes, pperg. binding. contemporary.
(Estr. T. 31, this title not noted). First edition of a comprehensive work on opium, in which the Author demonstrated the narcotic as well as medicinal effects of this substance. A thorough and scientific study of the subject made the work popular and even served as a textbook for medical students of pharmacology. Balthasar Louis Tralles (1708-1797), a Breslau physician and scholar, poet. Tralles was highly regarded at European courts as a physician, and his works (on camphor, on opium, on the treatment of cholera) became recognized items of medical literature. In 1762, he did not accept the position of personal physician to Stanislaw Leszczynski. He left about 50 works, in addition to strictly medical, also on the borderline of philosophy and medicine, theology and poetry. Traces of non. dampstain and stains. Good condition, rare.
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