Magni Hippocratis . . . opera omnia quae extant . . . denuo latina interpretatione & annotationibus illustrata, Anutio Foesio . . . authore.
Publisher Information: Geneva: Typis & sumptibus Samuelis Chouet, 1657. later edition. Folio. [44], 1344, [56]pp. Last leaf blank. Engraved frontispiece on the verso of the half-title. Parallel text in Greek and Latin. 383 x 240 mm. 17th or 18th century calf, gilt spine, worn and rubbed, hinges cracked. Half-title / frontispiece and title repaired, repairs to lower margins of first 14 signatures, some worming in lower margins of following signatures. Anutius Foes's critical edition of the complete writings of Hippocrates, first published in 1595, was "recognized by scholars everywhere as unquestionably the best of its kind before the time of Littré" (Garrison, Introduction to the History of Medicine, p. 189). "Foes used a number of manuscripts and much medical insight and philological ingenuity to improve the text of the early editions" (Smith, p. 45). Smith, "Introduction," in Hippocrates, Pseudepigraphic writings, ed. W. D. Smith (1990), pp. 1-46. Book Id: 40635
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