GEHEMA, Jan Abraham von.
Grouwelijke medicijnse moortmiddelen van aderlaten, koppen, purgeren, clisteren, juleppen, en verswakkende hertsterckingen, waer door donbedachtsame genees- en heelmeesters (geen rechtschapene practisijns synde) soo veele duysent onschudige menschen jammerlijck vant leven ter dood helpen.
Including: - Den hervormden apotheker, voorstellende een bequaem project, hoe en in wat voor gestalte de hedendaeghsche apotheecken billyk te reformeren en naer een rationali medendi methodo, die thans by alle verstandige en conscientieuse medicijns aengenomen is, te formeren waren.
- Diaetetica rationalis; dat is, op onloochenbare vaste principien, gesonder verstandts, en waerer experientie welgegronde levens-ordre, waer door een ieder mensche in sijnen standt, sijn gesondtheyt bewaeren, en een leven, vry van veelerley swaericheden, hier op aerden leyden kan.
The Hague, Pieter Heagen, 1690.
With: (2) HUBER, Ulrik (editor). Specimen philosophiae civilis et studendi bonis libris.
Franeker, J. Gyselaer, 1686. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. [20], 140; 169-538, [14] pp.
€ 1,950
Ad 1: First and only edition of three very rare medical and pharmacological treatises published together, by the German physician Jan(sz) Abraham Gehema (1647-1715). Gehema studied in Leiden where he settled as a physician before returning to Berlin in 1695. All three treatises, translated into Dutch by "G.D.C." from the original German, were originally published in Bremen in 1688 as Grausame medicinische Mord-Mittel (containing serious warnings against the evil practices of charlatans and quacks such as blood-letting, purgation and suspicious prescriptions, noting that they have killed many people), Der Reformirte Apotheker (a proposal to reform pharmacies to modern standards) and Diaetetica rationalis (instructions for a healthy lifestyle). Although the Dutch edition gives each work its own title-page and each begins on the first page of a quire (so that they could have been sold separately), they share a single series of page numbers and quire signatures.
Ad 2: An incomplete copy of another very rare book, with a curious combination of texts, edited by Ulrik Huber, professor of law at Franeker University. Texts present are René Descartes, Passiones. sive affectus animae (pp. 169-299), Huber's, Institutionis reipublicae liber singularis (pp. 301-494) and exerpts from Ovids Metamorphosis under the title Argumenta Måôáìïñöùóåùí excerpta ex Ovidio (pp. 495-538).
Ad 2 lacking the title-page, preliminaries and pp. 1-168, which contain excerpts from Aristotles Ethica. Spine somewhat wrinkled, but still in good condition. Ads 1-3: STCN (1 compl. & 1 incompl. Copy); Wellcome III, p. 99; cf. Krivatsy 45999 (1688 German ed.).
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