Therapeutica specialis

Therapeutica specialis: pars ultima Medicinae. Lecture notes taken down by Francesco Petrucelli at Naples. The main work is followed by 12 ll. of 'Appendix de potu frigido'. At the end of this is a note '...imposui finem presenti opusculo anno Domini 1729 mense Martii die 4 in domo sanctissimae Annunciationis Civitatis Neapolitanae sub disciplina Domini Doctoris Physici Antonii Papae...' On the verso of leaf 72, at the end of Chapter V, written by different hands, are notices of the deaths of Dr. Fisico Trolio Petrucelli 7 October 1751; of Dr. Fisico Giacinto Pugliese, 25 November, 1752; of Dr. Fisico Giuseppe Palermi 24 April 1755. On the last leaf is a note relating to an exchange of a vineyard dated 10 April 1770. Produced in Naples.

1729

1 volume 7 bl. ll. + 154 ll. + 11 ll. 8vo. 181/2 × 13 cm. Original vellum binding.

Purchased 1907.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).