1594 MEDICAL & PUBIC HEALTH TREATISE by L.Fioravanti antique The Rule of Plague

Fioravanti, Leonardo

 Il reggimento della peste

(The Rule of the Plague)

Venice: Heredi di Melchior Sessa; 1594

Original calf; worn, joints split, a few margin tears and occasional faded marginal dampstains, margins trimmed


 16th-century medical and public health treatise written by the renowned Renaissance physician and surgeon Leonardo Fioravanti (1517–1588)

The book explores what the plague is, its underlying causes and origins, and what duties political leaders (prencipi) hold to protect and preserve their populations during an outbreak.
 It details practical healing secrets (secreti), alchemical-inspired medical approaches, and seventy-seven learned aphorisms (dottissimi afforismi) compiled by Fioravanti based on his empirical observations rather than traditional scholastic medicine

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Leonardo Fioravanti was a famous and controversial Bolognese surgeon-alchemist who rejected purely theoretical university medicine in favor of hands-on experience, popular remedies, and surgical innovation.
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 Size 3 1/2 by 5 1/4" 

Text in Italian
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