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FERRI (ALFONSO) De ligni sancti multiplici medicina et vini exhibitione, FIRST EDITION, Rome, Antonio Blado, 1537 image 1
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FERRI (ALFONSO)
De ligni sancti multiplici medicina et vini exhibitione, FIRST EDITION, Rome, Antonio Blado, 1537

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FERRI (ALFONSO)

De ligni sancti multiplici medicina et vini exhibitione, FIRST EDITION, title with large woodcut arms of Pope Paul III, lower margins trimmed occasionally shaving catchwords (M3v-M4v with catchword cropped), light damp-stain to A2, nineteenth[?] century limp boards [USTC 829334], 4to, Rome, Antonio Blado, 1537

Footnotes

VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF FERRI'S TREATISE ON THE TEATMENT OF SYPHILIS USING GUAIACUM WOOD, AND THE HEALING PROPERTIES OF WINE. Only copies of the second or later editions have been traced in post-War auction records.

The Neapolitan doctor-surgeon Alfonso Ferri was called to Rome in 1535 to take care of Pope Paul III, the dedicatee of this work, and to teach at the university. In this popular treatise Ferri refers to the discovery of America as insulis aetate nostra repertis and discusses the exportation from Jamaica and Haiti of Guaiacum, the 'holy' wood which was imported from America during the early sixteenth-century and whose resin was supposedly a cure for venereal disease. The author also adds a fourth chapter on the healing properties of wine and its use together with the wood.

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