De febribus opus sane aureum ... in quo trium sectarum clarissimi medici habentur, qui de hac re egerunt; nempe Graeci, Arabes, atque Latini.

Venetiis : Apud Gratiosum Perchacinum, expensis Gasparis Bindoni, 1576 [colophon 1575]

4 unnumbered pages, 314, that is, 322 leaves ; (folio)

Includes extracts from Giovanni Marinelli's Commentarii ... in lib. Hippocratis; the entire text of Galenus' De differentiis febrium and selections from his Methodus medendi, bks. 8-12 and from his De methodo medendi ad Glauconem bk. 1; the first six chapters of book 3 of the so-called Medicina Plinii, ascribed to Plinius Valerianus; and a treatise headed "Philonii De febribus liber" which is taken from Valesco de Taranta's Philonium or Practica

The entire collection comprises some 25 authors.

Copy 1 Note: For later reprint see No. 4180, Medici antiqui graeci. 1594.

Copy 2. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. This book was formerly part of the collection of the Medical Society of London, which was deposited for safekeeping in the Wellcome Library in 1964. It was eventually purchased by the Wellcome Trust in 1984, with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities. Bound in mottled calf, rebacked and lettered in gold: Auctores de febribus. Bookplate of John Lewis Petit, loose.