[Medical Sciences] Severinus - De Abscessuum Recondita Natura, Libri VIII,

-(...) Editio novissima (...)Accedunt & Clarissimorum Virorum judicia super hunc de recondita Abscessuum natura Tractatum. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], apud Joannem a Kerckhem, 1724.

Small 4to., restored half parchment with marbled sides and gilt-stamped title on spine, ills. frontispice, title with printer's mark and portrait by J. Houbraken and 14 copper engravings, 2 of which are folding. Standard work concerning Surgical Pathology. It treats all swellings in the category "absces" and it describes neoplasma of the genitals and sarcomata of the bones. Breast tumors are classified in 4 groups and are the central chapters of this book. It also contains comments and explanations by Dr. Herman Boerhaave a.o.