TRALLES Balthasar Ludwig, Usus opii salvbris el noxivs, in morborvm medela, solidis et certis principiis svperstrvctvs.

Usus opii salvbris el noxivs, in morborvm medela, solidis et certis principiis svperstrvctvs.

Editio altera, avctior. Sect[io] I. - qvarta et vltima. (4 vols.) Vratislaviae 1774-1784, svmptibvs Io. Ernst. Meyeri. (22 x 18.5 cm), k. [6], p. 374; XVI, 407, [1]; 298; k. [4], 248, k. [12]; woodcut vignettes, period card (?) binding.
A comprehensive work on opium, in which the author demonstrated the narcotic as well as medicinal effects of this substance. Thorough and scientific study of the issue made the work popular and even served as a textbook for medical students of pharmacology. Balthasar Louis Tralles (1708-1797), Wroclaw 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 dampstaining and browning; own stamp, brown leather binding with abrasions and non. damage. Good condition; rare.