Weissbach & Schütze - Warhaffte und gründliche Cur...

True and Thorough Cure of All Ailments Befalling the Human Body With Prefatory Report on the Human Body and the Soul Acting Within Strasbourg: Johann Reinhold Dulssecker, 1712 & Tobias Schütze Chirurgical Instructor. For this second edition, to the Benefit of aspiring wound-doctors, with necessary Annotations for a better Understanding of the Author… Enlarged by Johann Daniel Gohlen… Berlin: Johann Christoph Papen, 1714 2 Books in 1 Volume: v+490+84 & [xiv]+167+ [i] pp. Leather binding of the period (17x10 cm; spine damaged); Weissbach without title page; stamp S i (‘Sigillum’); old notes on guard sheets, browned or foxed, some pages slightly dirty, pages 243-254 loose; according to the index: ‘Prefatory Report on the Human Body and the Soul Within’ (pp. 1-84) ‘True and Thorough Cure’ = RARE FIRST EDITION of a very popular collection of diagnoses of the main diseases and of herbal-based recipes for self-healing. For the treatment of eye and dental diseases, throat, nose, ear diseases, diseases of children and women, and sexual diseases. Further with recipes against diseases of the spleen, liver, lungs, stomach and intestines, kidneys, the “Zipperlein” (rheumatic ache), leprosy, plague, and paralysis. Christian Weissbach (1684-1715) studied in Halle, became in 1711 Doctor of Medicine in Basel and practiced in Düsseldorf Tobias Schütze (1617-1688?), court physician in Brandenburg

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