SANTORIO Santorio. Methodi vitandorum errorum omnium, qui in Arte Medica. Venezia, Marcantonio Brogiollo, 1630.

4to, mm. 230x160; Binding of bodoniana in pink paper, gilded tilte on the spine, sprayed edges; leaves 32 nn., with Titlepage, Dedication, Index, leaves 244 nn. with 972 columns, i.e. 976, repeated in the numbering 603-606. Printer’s device on the Titlepage, woodcut Initials and Ornaments. Stamp of extinct library on the Titlepage.

.Important second edition, enlarged and corrected by the author. In this work Sanctorius develops his experimental method in diagnostics and therapy, describes different instruments he devised specifically and speaks the medical use of the pendulum, which he had discussed with Galilei in Padua.

Garrison-Morton: “'First mention of Santorio’s pulse-clock (“pulsilogium”) and his scale. Through most of the 17th and 18th centuries Santorio's name was linked with that of Harvey as the greatest figure in physiology and experimental medicine because of his introduction of precision instruments for quantitative studies. He was also the founder of modern metabolic research."

Krivatsy, n. 10251; Garrison-Morton 572.1. Cfr. Castiglioni, St. della Medicina, pp. 470-41.

Slight sign of foxing, nice copy