LAURENTIUS Georg Friedrich, Exercitationum Medicarum In nonnullos Hippocratis Aphorismos minus absolute veros olim conscriptarum defensio;

Exercitationum Medicarum In nonnullos Hippocratis Aphorismos minus absolute veros olim conscriptarum defensio;

I. N. I. Georgii Friderici Laurentii, D. Regiae Principis Daniae et Norwegiae Quondam Medici Ordinarii, [...] Ad virum Perillustrem & Eminentissimum Dn. D. Guidonem Patinum Professorem Regium Primarium, & Archiatrorum Comitem, in alma & gloriosa Universitatum Prima Matre Parisiensi. Lubecae 1666. sumptibus Autoris. Typis Haeredum Jaegerianorum. (19.5 x 15 cm), p. [8], p. 20, p. [4], p. 53, [3], 5 copperplate engravings, binding pperg. contemporary, gilt on spine.
A medical work on the aphorisms of Hippocrates - the true and the outdated ones. Georg Friedrich Laurentius (1594-1673) - physician, pharmacist and publicist of Lubin origin. He attended gymnasium in Görlitz, then studied in Wittenberg and Padua, where he received his doctorate. He was a doctor in Danzig and later in Leipzig, but due to the Thirty Years' War he had to leave these cities and eventually settled in Hamburg. He was court physician to Frederick III Oldenburg, ruler of Denmark and Norway, as well as Greenland and Iceland. In the final years of his life he lived in Lübeck. Browning and rust spots on pages, traces of flooding on initial pages, title page with underlining and underlining, otherwise good condition. 9505/1