WATER IN MEDICINE

[Water] Rogiss, Carl Gottlieb: Specimen de aquae salutari in forum medicum influxu et fere optimo contra universos morbos, praesidio festinante calamo, exaratum et in lucem editum. Wratislaviae [Wrocław], apud Michaelem Hubertum 1737.

Interesting treatise, by a Polish physician, on the health-giving properties of water, including in cases of fever, hypochondria, fever and arthritis. There is some element of academic skit to the work as the title-page states that there is a person presiding (as if for an examination thesis) called "Hastening Calamity". A preface to the reader includes a paean to the properties of water. The work has a three-page schematic outline of the book's argument at the end. Rogiss came from Dobroszyce (Juliusburg) and studied at Erfurt. He dedicates the work to the Erfurt medical professor Andreas Elias Büchner (1701-1769) and to two physicians from Wrocław.

Details

8vo. (17.2 cms. x 10.3 cms.), pp. [16] 68 [3] [1]. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Light browning, a short wormtrail to bottom margin (blank) at very end, a good copy, probably removed from a sammelband (remains of a navigation tab to outer blank margin of title-page), bound in modern marbled boards.

Wellcome (1641-1850) IV 549. OCLC (01/18) shows copies outside mainland Europe in BL, Toronto, and Wellcome.